diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 84bb651e68..7236e1cad7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   (All changes contributed by Lars Gustäbel).
 
 * An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the
-  :class:`telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout
+  :class:`!telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout
   measured in seconds.  (Added by Facundo Batista.)
 
 * The :class:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` class usually deletes
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 3a681754e2..1cd33dfb60 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ rather than the version that is being emulated for the process
 telnetlib
 ---------
 
-:class:`~telnetlib.Telnet` is now a context manager (contributed by
+:class:`!telnetlib.Telnet` is now a context manager (contributed by
 Stéphane Wirtel in :issue:`25485`).
 
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
index 0888a5c430..7da4385973 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ after whitespace, e.g. '127.0.0.1 whatever'.
 
 Adds audit events for :mod:`ensurepip`, :mod:`ftplib`, :mod:`glob`,
 :mod:`imaplib`, :mod:`nntplib`, :mod:`pdb`, :mod:`poplib`, :mod:`shutil`,
-:mod:`smtplib`, :mod:`sqlite3`, :mod:`subprocess`, :mod:`telnetlib`,
+:mod:`smtplib`, :mod:`sqlite3`, :mod:`subprocess`, :mod:`!telnetlib`,
 :mod:`tempfile` and :mod:`webbrowser`, as well as :func:`os.listdir`,
 :func:`os.scandir` and :func:`breakpoint`.