diff --git a/service/status.md b/service/status.md
index 756ced87501bc0b6db48f96c2c9f14f360c30a94..28c6e4a6297637d6ab4b5d9082b5959bdfcf169f 100644
--- a/service/status.md
+++ b/service/status.md
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ with status updates.
    the Tor wider community of users (not just TPI/TPA)
  * **status updates and progress**: "post status problem we know about
    so the world can learn if problems are known to the Tor team."
-   * example: "[recent] v3 outage where we could have put out a small
+   * example: "\[recent\] v3 outage where we could have put out a small
      FAQ right away (go static HTML!) and then update the world as we
      figure out the problem but also expected return to normal."
  * **multi-stakeholder**: "easily editable by many of us namely likely