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 > ### ⚠️ Help needed
 >
-> As I (@simskij) currently am the sole maintainer of watchtower, i'm finding it a bit hard to keep up with all issues and pull requests. Interested in helping out with triage, troubleshooting and issue handling? Let me know on gitter!
+> As I [@simskij](https://github.com/simskij) currently am the sole maintainer of watchtower, i'm finding it a bit hard to keep up with all issues and pull requests. Interested in helping out with triage, troubleshooting and issue handling? Let me know on gitter!
 
 
 ## Quick Start