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 <!--
-Before you create a new PR, please consider:
+Thank you for submitting new code to Firefly III, or any of the related projects. Please read the following rules carefully.
 
-1) Pull requests for the MAIN branch will be closed.
-2) DO NOT include translations in your PR. Only English US sentences.
+- Do not submit solutions for problems that are not already reported in an issue
+- Firefly III can't be your learning experience. If you're new to all of this, please go be new somewhere else
+- Do not open PRs to "discuss" possible solutions or to "get feedback" on your code. I don't have time for that.
+- Pull requests for the MAIN branch will be closed.
+- DO NOT include translated strings in your PR.
+
+Perhaps open an issue first, before you open a PR?
 
-Thanks.
 -->
-
-Fixes issue # (if relevant)
+    
+This PR fixes issue # (if relevant).
 
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