diff --git a/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_variables.rst b/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_variables.rst
index f30ce4254d6..a634963f0c2 100644
--- a/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_variables.rst
+++ b/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_variables.rst
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ The contents of each variables file is a simple YAML dictionary, like this::
 
 .. note::
    It's also possible to keep per-host and per-group variables in very
-   similar files, this is covered in :ref:`intro_patterns`.
+   similar files, this is covered in :doc:`intro_patterns`.
 
 .. _passing_variables_on_the_command_line: