Author: max-sixty

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@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ Please be concise with code posted. See guidelines below on how to provide a goo
 - Craft Minimal Bug Reports: http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2018/02/28/minimal-bug-reports
 - Minimal Complete Verifiable Examples: https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve
 
-Bug reports that follow these guidelines are easier to diagnose, and so are often handled much more quickly.
+While we recognize these take time & effort to create, issues that follow these guidelines are faster 
+to diagnose, and promote a healthy ecosystem of timely responses to high quality issues.
+
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 **What happened**:
@@ -37,10 +39,12 @@ Bug reports that follow these guidelines are easier to diagnose, and so are ofte
 
 **Issue checklist**
 
-<!-- Please confirm the guidelines have been followed before posting the issue. -->
+<!-- Please the issue is consistent with the guidelines before posting the issue. -->
 
-- [ ] Minimal example — the example is about as small as possible to show the
-  underlying issue in xarray, and doesn't link to external data.
-- [ ] Complete example — the example is self-contained, and includes any traceback.
-- [ ] Verifiable example — the example copies & pastes into an IPython prompt.
+- [ ] Minimal example — the example is approximately as focused as possible to
+  demonstrate the underlying issue in xarray.
+- [ ] Complete example — the example is self-contained, including all data and
+  the text of any traceback.
+- [ ] Verifiable example — the example copy & pastes into an IPython prompt, returning
+  the result.
 - [ ] New issue — a cursory search of GitHub Issues suggests this is not a duplicate.