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Publicizing or hiding organization membership doesn't mention that sometimes you can't #42696

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/organization-membership/publicizing-or-hiding-organization-membership

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Before the instructions on how to do it, there needs to be some prose explaining that sometimes you can't publicize your membership. Preferably, that prose should explain under which circumstances you can't.

It might just be that you can only publicize status when you're a "member" and not when you're an "outside collaborator". But, as the instructions talk about visiting "Organizations", and there isn't any prose in either the help or the "Organizations" page, that isn't terribly obvious.

Additional information

On https://github.com/settings/organizations, I saw:
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And I decided to try to follow the steps in the documentation which led me to:

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