diff --git a/docs/iris/src/userguide/cube_statistics.rst b/docs/iris/src/userguide/cube_statistics.rst
index 96e4776cf7..3ca7d9a2e0 100644
--- a/docs/iris/src/userguide/cube_statistics.rst
+++ b/docs/iris/src/userguide/cube_statistics.rst
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ For an example of using this functionality, the
 in the gallery takes a zonal mean of an ``XYT`` cube by using the
 ``collapsed`` method with ``latitude`` and ``iris.analysis.MEAN`` as arguments.
 
-You cannot partially collapse a multi-dimensional coordinate. See
-:ref:`cube.collapsed <partially_collapse_multi-dim_coord>` for more
-information.
-
 .. _cube-statistics-collapsing-average:
 
 Area averaging