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 Guidelines for Contributing
 ===========================
 
-Welcome to the D community and thanks for your interest in contributing! To get started, please read the [Starting as a Contributor](http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor) article on the D Wiki.
+Welcome to the D community and thanks for your interest in contributing!
+If this is your first pull request, please read [Contributing to Phobos](https://wiki.dlang.org/Contributing_to_Phobos).
+Have a look at [Starting as a Contributor](http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Building_D) for build instructions.
 
 More Links
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 * Fork [on Github](https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos)
 * Use our [Bugzilla bug tracker](http://d.puremagic.com/issues/)
-* Follow the [Styleguide](http://dlang.org/dstyle.html)
+* Follow the [D style](http://dlang.org/dstyle.html)
 * Participate in [our forum](http://forum.dlang.org/)
-* Review Phobos additions in the [Review Queue](http://wiki.dlang.org/Review_Queue).
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+* Ask questions on our `#d` IRC channel on freenode.org ([web interface](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/d))
+* Review Phobos additions in the [Review Queue](http://wiki.dlang.org/Review_Queue).