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 Significant effort SHOULD be made to give attribution for these lists whenever possible, and if you are a list owner or know who the original author/curator is, please let us know so we can give proper credit.
 
+## Wordlist content
+
+If you're uploading a new Wordlist, make sure to follow these guidelines.
+
+### Remove leading slashes
+Do not include leading slashes in the wordlists contents. This ensures all SecLists wordlists have the same format, and also helps keep the wordlist filesize down.
+- ❌ `/path/to/something`
+- ✅ `path/to/something`
+
+
+### Remove duplicates
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> If you're on Windows, you'll need to install [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/) to use these commands.
+
+You can remove duplicate lines from any wordlists using the command:
+- On Linux: `sort -u your_wordlist.txt --output clean_file.txt`
+- On Windows (Powershell): `&"C:\cygwin64\bin\sort.exe" -u your_wordlist.txt --output clean_file.txt`
+
+If the order of the lines matters, for example if you're uploading a wordlist of passwords where they are sorted by probability, then you can instead use this command instead:
+- On Linux: `gawk '!seen[$0]++' your_wordlist.txt > clean_file.txt'`
+- On Windows (Powershell): `&"C:\cygwin64\bin\gawk.exe" '!seen[$0]++' your_wordlist.txt > clean_file.txt'`
+
+### Remove ambiguous lines
+
+Purpose-specific wordlists with exceedingly common lines such as `index.html` and `.git` are likely to cause false positives when used against a target. It's recommended to remove these lines before uploading.
+
+
+### Consider using placeholders
+
+If the wordlist contains URL parameters, consider that it may be beneficial to replace those parameters with placeholders, and then reference those placeholders in the documentation.
+
+For example:
+- ❌ `path/to/auth?password=somePassword496`
+- ✅ `path/to/auth?password={PASSWORD_PLACEHOLDER}`
+
+
 ## Folder naming scheme
 
 Folders should be named with the train case scheme, for example `File-System`.