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Docs: Update Style Guide with Notes guidance

Craig Norris requested to merge docs-notes-guidance into master

What does this MR do?

As part of the discussion to reduce our usage of Notes in docs, it was suggested to revisit our guidance in the Style Guide regarding Note usage. I've created alternate guidance for discussion by the Style Guide group to hopefully help people make better decisions about Note usage.

Related issues

technical-writing#255 (closed)

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All reviewers can help ensure accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the Documentation Guidelines and Style Guide.

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