diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/discovery/quorums.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/discovery/quorums.asciidoc index f6f50b88b3190..beee6da60231e 100644 --- a/docs/reference/modules/discovery/quorums.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/modules/discovery/quorums.asciidoc @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ succeeded on receipt of responses from a _quorum_, which is a subset of the master-eligible nodes in the cluster. The advantage of requiring only a subset of the nodes to respond is that it means some of the nodes can fail without preventing the cluster from making progress. The quorums are carefully chosen so -the cluster does not have a "split brain" scenario where it's partitioned into +the cluster does not have a "{wikipedia}/Split-brain_(computing)[split-brain]" scenario where it's partitioned into two pieces such that each piece may make decisions that are inconsistent with those of the other piece.