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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ### GitHub Action - Markdown link check 🔗✔️
 [![GitHub Marketplace](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub%20Marketplace-Markdown%20link%20check-brightgreen?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/markdown-link-check-action)
 
-Forked from [gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check](https://github.com/gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check), which is no longer maintained.
+> Forked from [gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check](https://github.com/gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check), which is no longer maintained.
 
 This GitHub action checks all Markdown files in your repository for broken links. (Uses [tcort/markdown-link-check](https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check))
 
@@ -18,23 +18,10 @@ This GitHub action checks all Markdown files in your repository for broken links
      markdown-link-check:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
-       - uses: actions/checkout@master
+       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
    ```
 
-### Real-life usage samples
-
-Following is a list of some of the repositories which are using GitHub Action -
-Markdown link check.
-
-1. [netdata](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/.github/workflows/docs.yml) ![](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/netdata/netdata?style=social)
-1. [GoogleChrome/lighthouse (Weekly cron job)](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/.github/workflows/cron-weekly.yml)
-   ![](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/GoogleChrome/lighthouse?style=social)
-1. [tendermint/tendermint](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/.github/workflows/markdown-links.yml)
-   ![](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/tendermint/tendermint?style=social)
-1. [pyroscope-io/pyroscope](https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope/blob/main/.github/workflows/lint-markdown.yml)
-   ![](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/pyroscope-io/pyroscope?style=social)
-
 ## Configuration
 
 - [Custom variables](#custom-variables)
@@ -71,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
   markdown-link-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
       with:
         use-quiet-mode: 'yes'
@@ -104,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
   markdown-link-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
       with:
         use-quiet-mode: 'yes'
@@ -152,7 +139,7 @@ jobs:
   markdown-link-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
       with:
         use-quiet-mode: 'yes'
@@ -170,7 +157,7 @@ jobs:
   markdown-link-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
       with:
         use-quiet-mode: 'yes'
@@ -220,7 +207,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # check out the latest version of the code
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     # Checks the status of hyperlinks in .md files in verbose mode
     - name: Check links
@@ -242,7 +229,7 @@ GitHub Action - Markdown link check follows the [GitHub recommended versioning s
 
 1. To use a specific released version of the action ([Releases](https://github.com/tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check/releases)):
    ```yml
-   - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@1
+   - uses: tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
    ```
 1. To use a major version of the action:
    ```yml