diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -225,11 +225,6 @@
 supporting custom extensions and directives that is commonly used in
 the Python community.
 
-Sphinx is a standalone package that can be used for writing, and
-almost two dozen other projects
-(`listed on the Sphinx web site <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__)
-have adopted Sphinx as their documentation tool.
-
 .. seealso::
 
    `Documenting Python <http://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html>`__