Replace CONTRIBUTORS file with Contributors section in documentation

The CONTRIBUTORS file has been incomplete and outdated

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
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--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
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@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-Thank you to all who have contributed to this project!
-If you contributed and not listed below please let me know.
-
-Aaron Hill
-Aaron Swartz
-Adam Miskiewicz
-AlanBell
-Arthur Debert
-Bas Westerbaan
-Can Duruk
-Chris Kelly
-Clay McClure
-Ferenc Szalai
-Gergely Imreh
-gilles
-Guan Yang
-Harmon (@harmon758)
-Ivo Wetzel
-Jan Schaumann (@jschauma)
-Jared Stefanowicz
-James Rowe
-Jeff Hull (@jsh2134)
-Jenny Loomis
-Johannes Faigle
-Kohei YOSHIDA
-Kumar Appaiah
-Mark Smith (@judy2k)
-Michael (Doc) Norton
-Mike (mikeandmore)
-Pascal Jürgens
-Patrick A. Levell (@palevell)
-Robin Houston
-Sam Kaufman
-Samuel (@obskyr)
-Sayed Mohammad Hossein Torabi (@blcksrx)
-Steven Skoczen (@skoczen)
-Stuart Powers
-Thomas Bohmbach, Jr
-Wayne Moore
-Will McCutchen

diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
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@@ -32,3 +32,17 @@ To record new cassettes, the following environment variables can be used:
 
 Simply set ``USE_REPLAY`` to ``False`` and provide the app and account
 credentials and username.
+
+Contributors
+============
+
+Tweepy's contributors can be identified through the `GitHub repository`_'s
+`contributors graph page`_, `commit history`_, `issues`_, `pull requests`_, and
+`discussions`_.
+
+.. _GitHub repository: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
+.. _contributors graph page: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/graphs/contributors
+.. _commit history: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/commits/master
+.. _issues: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/issues?q=is%3Aissue
+.. _pull requests: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/pulls?q=is%3Apr
+.. _discussions: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/discussions