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JIRA URL: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/DOCSP-49580

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Thanks for this update @lindseymoore ! I left a small suggestion and question for your consideration

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LGTM just left a few suggestions/comments.

Title Length
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Titles should be between 30-60 character long. Pages with titles longer than 60 characters
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Titles should be between 30-60 character long. Pages with titles longer than 60 characters
Titles should be between 30-60 characters long. Pages with titles longer than 60 characters


- Disambiguation

Each of the following four subsections describe one of the above principles.
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[s] Would it be possible to include an example for each principle (use vs don't use)? Might be helpful for writers who haven't started updating titles yet to see the difference.

Use the guidelines in the following subsections to create effective and consistent
titles and headings. Special considerations for stand-alone articles, product
guides, and tables, figures, and examples can be found in the Product Guides and
Tables, Figures, and Headings subsections.
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[s] Suggestion to add some ref links here.


- Use a consistent grammatical structure for the titles and headings of
specific types of content:
Use a consistent grammatical structure for the titles and headings of
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[q] Outside of the diff here, but should the examples in this table use the capitalization approach in the style guide? It's a little confusing that they're in sentence case.

General Style and Structure
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The following guidelines apply to all titles and headings;
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The following guidelines apply to all titles and headings;
The following guidelines apply to all titles and headings:

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