diff --git a/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/best-practices.md b/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/best-practices.md
index 0f53482e6bef..3579ad42ee43 100644
--- a/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/best-practices.md
+++ b/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/best-practices.md
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ You are currently reading the best practices.
 
 + It is a good practice to pass your template through a JSON linter to remove extraneous commas, parenthesis, brackets that may break the "Deploy to Azure" experience. Try http://jsonlint.com/ or a linter package for your favorite editing environment (Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text, Visual Studio etc.)
 + It's also a good idea to format your JSON for better readability. You can use a JSON formatter package for your local editor or [format online using this link](https://www.bing.com/search?q=json+formatter).
-+ A starter template is provided [here](/100-STARTER-TEMPLATE-with-VALIDATION) for you to follow.
 
 The following guidelines are relevant to the main deployment template and nested templates (if used).
 
diff --git a/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/sample-README.md b/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/sample-README.md
index d037a6db6384..4d6381087ffa 100644
--- a/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/sample-README.md
+++ b/1-CONTRIBUTION-GUIDE/sample-README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Solution name
 
-<a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2F100-STARTER-TEMPLATE-with-VALIDATION%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank">
+<a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2F100-blank-template%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank">
 <img src="http://azuredeploy.net/deploybutton.png"/>
 </a>
-<a href="http://armviz.io/#/?load=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2F100-STARTER-TEMPLATE-with-VALIDATION%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank">
+<a href="http://armviz.io/#/?load=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2F100-blank-template%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank">
 <img src="http://armviz.io/visualizebutton.png"/>
 </a>
 
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ You can optionally specify a storage account to use, if so the storage account m
 one will be created by the script (think of this as "temp" storage for AzureRM) and reused by subsequent deployments.
 
 ```PowerShell
-.\Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 -ResourceGroupLocation 'eastus' -ArtifactsStagingDirectory '100-STARTER-TEMPLATE-with-VALIDATION' -UploadArtifacts 
+.\Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 -ResourceGroupLocation 'eastus' -ArtifactsStagingDirectory '100-blank-template' -UploadArtifacts 
 ```
 ```bash
-azure-group-deploy.sh -a 100-STARTER-TEMPLATE-with-VALIDATION -l eastus -u
+azure-group-deploy.sh -a 100-blank-template -l eastus -u
 ```
 
 This template deploys a **solution name**. The **solution name** is a **description**