My thoughts, a bit line-by-line:

> I feel a little bit uneasy about "... questions the team will have ..." -- makes it sounds like the rest of the community isn't quite involved.

As an outsider, I don't really think of "the team" and "the community" as two different entities.  That being said, I wasn't a huge fan of "the team" even when I wrote it.  I think replacing is with "the community" is a good update.

> How about something like: "... which includes some questions that we'd like you to answer in order to help the community/others understand your contribution and expedite the pull request reviewing process."

Just a note.  I have a difficult time writing "we" in any of this stuff, because I don't feel comfortable thinking of myself as speaking for the DDG team.  That's a quirk I should probably work on.  :smile:  I also don't like "multiple subject/object/verb"-style sentences where it can be helped.  I also think this runs on a bit.

How about:  "which includes some questions to help the community understand your contribution.  This template expedites the pull request reviewing process."  Sounds a bit stilted. :grimacing: 

> Also, "The contents of this file should be ..." -- a little bit more assertive so it doesn't sound like it's optional.

I avoided this for a couple reasons.  One is the note you have below about it only being required for new IAs. Secondly, "should" can sound too much like "must" to a casual reader.  That can be a little off-putting, especially, since i's not strictly true (I think.)

> Wondering if including a picture of the PR template pasted into a PR will help so its 100% clear

Yikes, sounds like a lot of maintenance to keep up with the GitHub interface.

> We don't really tell them that this only applies to new IA pull requests -- perhaps we should do that

I considered this both ways.  Throughout the tutorial we've been presuming that they are developing a new IA.  I'm not sure making that distinction here helps much.  (Although it also didn't hurt that I wasn't sure exactly how to say it. :smile:)