diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
index 78eba1fe5d025..08d184f9df416 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ Bug Fixes
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-**Reshaping**
-
-- Bug in :func:`merge` when merging by index name would sometimes result in an incorrectly numbered index (:issue:`24212`)
-
 **Visualization**
 
 - Fixed the warning for implicitly registered matplotlib converters not showing. See :ref:`whatsnew_0211.converters` for more (:issue:`24963`).
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
index 5129449e4fdf3..d0ddb6e09d555 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Groupby/Resample/Rolling
 Reshaping
 ^^^^^^^^^
 
--
+- Bug in :func:`merge` when merging by index name would sometimes result in an incorrectly numbered index (:issue:`24212`)
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