diff --git a/doc/developers/performance.rst b/doc/developers/performance.rst
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ for interactively exploring the relevant part for the code.
 
 Suppose we want to profile the Non Negative Matrix Factorization module
 of the scikit. Let us setup a new IPython session and load the digits
-dataset and as in the :ref:`example_plot_plot_digits_classification.py` example::
+dataset and as in the :ref:`example_plot_digits_classification.py` example::
 
   In [1]: from sklearn.decomposition import NMF