diff --git a/docs/shortcuts.txt b/docs/shortcuts.txt
index 2030ea72fe..f1d7f38ffa 100644
--- a/docs/shortcuts.txt
+++ b/docs/shortcuts.txt
@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ This example is equivalent to::
         r = HttpResponse(t.render(c),
             mimetype="application/xhtml+xml")
 
-.. _an HttpResponse object: ../request_response/#httpresponse-objects
-
 ``get_object_or_404``
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