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+const allowedLangDirNames = [
+  'arabic',
+  'chinese',
+  'english',
+  'portuguese',
+  'russian',
+  'spanish'
+];
+
+const createErrorMsg = (errors, user, hasPrevComments) => {
+  let finalMsg = `**Hi @${user},**\n`;
+  if (!hasPrevComments) {
+    finalMsg += `
+**Thanks for this pull request (PR).**\n
+\n
+Unfortunately, some of your commits have caused our CI tests to fail.\n
+\n`;
+  }
+  finalMsg += `Please correct the issue(s) listed below, so we can consider merging your content.\n
+\n`;
+  finalMsg += errors.reduce((msgStr, error, idx) => {
+    return msgStr += `#### Issue ${idx + 1}:\n
+> ${error}\n
+\n`;
+}, '');
+
+  return `\n${finalMsg}`;
+}
+
+const checkPath = fullPath => {
+  let errorMsgs = [];
+  const remaining = fullPath.split('/');
+  if (!allowedLangDirNames.includes(remaining[1])) {
+    errorMsgs.push(`${remaining[1]} should not be in the guide directory`);
+  }
+
+  if (remaining[remaining.length - 1] !== 'index.md') {
+    errorMsgs.push(`${remaining[remaining.length - 1]} is not a valid file name, please use 'index.md'
+Found in:
+${fullPath}`);
+  }
+
+  if (remaining[2] === 'index.md') {
+    errorMsgs.push(`${remaining[2]} is not valid in the guide directory`);
+  }
+
+  const dirName = fullPath.replace('/index.md', '');
+  if (dirName.replace(/(\s|\_)/, '') !== dirName) {
+    errorMsgs.push(`Invalid character found in a folder name, please use '-' for spaces and underscores\n
+Found in:\n
+${fullPath}`);
+  }
+
+  if (dirName.toLowerCase() !== dirName) {
+    errorMsgs.push(`Upper case characters found in a folder name, all folder names must be lower case\n
+Found in :\n
+${fullPath}`);
+  }
+
+  return errorMsgs;
+};
+
+const guideFolderChecks = (fullPath, user, hasPrevComments) => {
+  if (/^guide\//.test(fullPath)) {
+    const errors = checkPath(fullPath);
+    if (errors.length) {
+      return createErrorMsg(errors, user, hasPrevComments);
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+exports.guideFolderChecks = guideFolderChecks;