correct grammatical error in CONTRIBUTING.md to "in their own right" (#14883)

The pronoun and its noun did not agree in grammatical number. Furthermore, the previous author seems to have started writing the idiomatic phrase "in its own right", and then gotten confused and completed it by writing the end of the idiomatic phrase "on its own merits". The former better expresses the concept under discussion here (which could also be paraphrased as "themselves", "in-and-of-themselves", or "also", although less precisely), so I've gone with it.
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### What to do when a project's documentation and implementation disagree
Type stubs are meant to be external type annotations for a given
library. While they are useful documentation in its own merit, they
library. While they are useful documentation in their own right, they
augment the project's concrete implementation, not the project's
documentation. Whenever you find them disagreeing, model the type
information after the actual implementation and file an issue on the