diff --git a/content/en/docs/contribute/intermediate.md b/content/en/docs/contribute/intermediate.md
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--- a/content/en/docs/contribute/intermediate.md
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@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ the techniques described in
 [Commit into another person's PR](#commit-into-another-persons-pr).
 
 If you need to write a new topic, the following links are useful:
+
 - [Writing a New Topic](/docs/contribute/style/write-new-topic/)
 - [Using Page Templates](/docs/contribute/style/page-templates/)
 - [Documentation Style Guide](/docs/contribute/style/style-guide/)
@@ -764,6 +765,11 @@ deadlines. Some deadlines related to documentation are:
   documentation and the docs are not ready, the feature may be removed from the
   milestone.
 
+If your feature is an Alpha feature and is behind a feature gate, make sure you
+add it to [Feature gates](/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/feature-gates/)
+as part of your pull request. If your feature is moving out of Alpha, make sure to
+remove it from that file.
+
 ## Contribute to other repos
 
 The [Kubernetes project](https://github.com/kubernetes) contains more than 50