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-    <h2><a href="https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">Rules and guidelines</a> for contributing to the CF conventions
+    <h2><a href="https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions?tab=contributing-ov-file#contributing-to-the-cf-conventions">Rules and guidelines</a> for contributing to the CF conventions
+
+Note that these are not the rules for changing CF standard names and other controlled vocabulary. Those rules are <a href="https://cfconventions.org/standard_name_rules.html">here</a>.
 
     <h2><a href="./conventions_contributors.html">List of contributors</a> to CF conventions</h2>
 
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 See also the links in the navigation bar at the top of this page.
 
-Rules for contributing to CF: [vocabulary](https://cfconventions.org/standard_name_rules.html) (including standard names), [conventions](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+Rules for contributing to CF: [vocabulary](https://cfconventions.org/standard_name_rules.html) (including standard names), [conventions](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions?tab=contributing-ov-file#contributing-to-the-cf-conventions)
 
 Proposals for changing CF: [vocabulary](https://github.com/cf-convention/vocabularies/issues), [conventions](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues), [website and governance](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-convention.github.io/issues)
 
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 # Rules for Changes to CF Standard Names, Area Types and Standardized Region List Vocabularies
 
 **These rules apply only to changes in CF controlled vocabularies.
-The rules for changes to the CF conventions themselves are given [here](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).**
+The rules for changes to the CF conventions themselves are given [here](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions?tab=contributing-ov-file#contributing-to-the-cf-conventions).**
 
 New proposals are made by opening a new issue in the cf-convention/vocabularies github repository.
 The 'Standard Names' template should be used, even if the proposal relates to one of the other vocabularies.