diff --git a/doc/datasets/olivetti_faces.rst b/doc/datasets/olivetti_faces.rst
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--- a/doc/datasets/olivetti_faces.rst
+++ b/doc/datasets/olivetti_faces.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The Olivetti faces dataset
 This dataset contains a set of face images taken between April 1992 and April
 1994 at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. The website describing the original
 dataset is now defunct, but archived copies can be accessed through
-`the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine`_. The `sklearn.datasets.fetch_olivetti_faces`
+`the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine`_. The :func:`sklearn.datasets.fetch_olivetti_faces`
 function is the data fetching / caching function that downloads the data
 archive from AT&T.