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-* [ ] ❗ Have you followed the guidelines in the [Contributing to DVC](https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/contributing/core) list?
+* [ ] ❗ I have followed the [Contributing to DVC](https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/contributing/core) checklist.
 
-* [ ] 📖 Check this box if this PR **does not** require [documentation](https://dvc.org/doc) updates, or if it does **and** you have created a separate PR in [dvc.org](https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org) with such updates (or at least opened an issue about it in that repo). Please link below to your PR (or issue) in the [dvc.org](https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org) repo.
+* [ ] 📖 If this PR requires [documentation](https://dvc.org/doc) updates, I have created a separate PR (or issue, at least) in [dvc.org](https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org) and linked it here. If the CLI API is changed, I have updated [tab completion scripts](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/tree/master/scripts/completion).
 
-* [ ] ❌ Have you checked DeepSource, CodeClimate, and other sanity checks below? We consider their findings recommendatory and don't expect everything to be addressed. Please review them carefully and fix those that actually improve code or fix bugs.
+* [ ] ❌ I will check DeepSource, CodeClimate, and other sanity checks below. (We consider them recommendatory and don't expect everything to be addressed. Please fix things that actually improve code or fix bugs.)
 
 Thank you for the contribution - we'll try to review it as soon as possible. 🙏