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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Homepage
 For information about the Linux man-pages project, see
 http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html.
 
+Bug reports and contributing
+============================
+If you have corrections and additions to suggest, see
+http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html
+(Please don't report isses via the GitHub issue tracker!)
+
+For further information on contributing, see the CONTRIBUTING file.
+
 Installing and uninstalling
 ===========================
 "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].