diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 200ac7d3..e5f8cdfb 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Any community member can review a PR.
 
 #### Commit Squashing
 
-There is no need to squash your commits manually. PRs are usually squash merged anyway.
+There is no need to squash your commits manually.
 
 ### CI
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Please ensure that your PR passes the CI checks:
 - [Rustdoc](https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/write-documentation/linking-to-items-by-name.html)
   links work
 
-If you are on a *nix system, you can use the [`scripts/ci-check.sh`](scripts/ci-check.sh) script to quickly check if you pass the CI checks.
+The [`ci-check.sh`](ci-check.sh) can help with this.
 
 #### Add an entry to the changelog
 
diff --git a/scripts/ci-check.sh b/ci-check.sh
similarity index 71%
rename from scripts/ci-check.sh
rename to ci-check.sh
index 4fed8853..de95e43a 100755
--- a/scripts/ci-check.sh
+++ b/ci-check.sh
@@ -3,25 +3,27 @@ set -e
 
 MSRV="1.74.0"
 
-echo "fmt check"
+echo "MSRV set to $MSRV"
+
+echo "cargo fmt"
 cargo fmt --all --check
 
 echo "clippy"
 cargo clippy -q --all-features --all-targets --workspace -- -D warnings
 
-echo "build docs"
+echo "Building docs"
 RUSTDOCFLAGS="--cfg docsrs -D warnings" cargo doc -q --no-deps --all-features --document-private-items
 
-echo "build tests"
+echo "Building tests"
 cargo test -q --no-run
 
-echo "running tests..."
+echo "Running tests..."
 cargo test -q > /dev/null
 
-echo "build tests on msrv"
+echo "Building tests on MSRV"
 RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN="$MSRV" cargo test -q --no-run 
 
-echo "running tests on msrv..."
+echo "Running tests on MSRV..."
 RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN="$MSRV" cargo test -q > /dev/null
 
 echo ">>>>>> ALL OK <<<<<<<<"