Improve experience around GitLab Pages forking vs. templates

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Forking vs. templates

The official guidelines further down the previously mentioned page start off with forking an example project. The better option would actually be to create a new project and use the example projects as templates. Not every user understands the forking workflow, as can be seen by the many merge requests from forked Pages back to the template. pages/gatsby!4 (closed) pages/sphinx!2 (closed) https://gitlab.com/pages/gitbook/merge_requests/22 pages/plain-html!93 (closed) pages/plain-html!71 (closed) pages/pelican!6 (closed) pages/hugo!68 (closed)