I mean this with all due respect, because anyone who is taking time to write guides is trying to help the community....
but...
Do we really need a guide for creating an alt coin? I mean we're getting snowed under with a new alt coin clone being released every day week with zero innovation. If a "developer" needs to be reading this guide to figure out how to make an alt coin, what the chances of it not being a simply clone of something else? Pretty much zero.
Should we really be encouraging this and making it more accessible?
The only reason to make another coin may not only be to compete with bitcoin, some
May want to to learn how, some may want to use it for a niche application.
For example, how many Linux distribution offer very little in the way of anything new other than a few minor cosmetic differences, many but it helps generate interest to have everyone promoting their distro increasing the adoption of Linux in general.