diff --git a/source/conf.py b/source/conf.py
index 786e67dd3..831f9c9ea 100644
--- a/source/conf.py
+++ b/source/conf.py
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@
     # Temporarily ignored. Ref:
     # https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/pull/1308#issuecomment-1775347690
     "https://www.breezy-vcs.org/*",
+    # Ignore while StackOverflow is blocking GitHub CI. Ref:
+    # https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/pull/1474
+    "https://stackoverflow.com/*",
 ]
 linkcheck_retries = 5
 # Ignore anchors for links to GitHub project pages -- GitHub adds anchors from
diff --git a/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst b/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
index e487e41e1..e300fa8f7 100644
--- a/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
+++ b/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ Single-sourcing the package version
 There are many techniques to maintain a single source of truth for the version
 number of your project:
 
-#.  Read the file in :file:`setup.py` and get the version. Example (from `pip setup.py
-    <https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/setup.py>`_)::
+#.  Read the file in :file:`setup.py` and get the version. Example::
 
         import codecs
         import os.path