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 # Pull request templates
 
-- `pull_request_template.md`: The default pull request template. Used for PRs.
+- `../pull_request_template.md`: The default pull request template. Used for PRs.
 - `release.md`: Special template used for releasing a new version of NDSL.
 - `release-patch.md`: Special template used for patch releases.
 
 Note: GitHub has limited support for multiple pull request templates. Most notably, templates can only be [selected by an URL query parameter](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/4620) and there's currently [no way to set a title](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/63965).
+
+Note: GitHub does not support having the default pull request template in this folder. All templates in this folder can only be used with the `template=` URL parameter (see note above).
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