diff --git a/docs/src/guidelines.md b/docs/src/guidelines.md
index 88b15c50..64086a79 100644
--- a/docs/src/guidelines.md
+++ b/docs/src/guidelines.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function guidelines_to_markdown_output(guidelines_function::Function)
         use_distance_check = false,
         package_author_approved = false,
     )
-    filter!(x -> x[1] != :update_status, guidelines)
+    filter!(x -> !(x[1] isa Symbol), guidelines)
     filter!(x -> !(x[1].docs isa Nothing), guidelines)
     docs = [rstrip(x[1].docs) for x in guidelines]
     output_string = join(string.(collect(1:length(docs)), Ref(". "), docs), "\n")
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function guidelines_to_markdown_output(guidelines_function::Function)
         use_distance_check = false,
         package_author_approved = false,
     )
-    filter!(x -> x[1] != :update_status, guidelines)
+    filter!(x -> !(x[1] isa Symbol), guidelines)
     filter!(x -> !(x[1].docs isa Nothing), guidelines)
     docs = [rstrip(x[1].docs) for x in guidelines]
     output_string = join(string.(collect(1:length(docs)), Ref(". "), docs), "\n")
@@ -139,4 +139,4 @@ Specifically, these labels are:
 * `Override AutoMerge: package author approved`
     * This label can be manually applied, but typically is applied by a separate Github Actions workflow which monitors the PR for comments by the package author, and applies this label if they write `[merge approved]`.
     * This label currently only skips the "sequential version number" check in new versions. In the future, the author-approval mechanism may be used for other checks (on both "new version" registrations and also "new package" registrations).
-        * When AutoMerge fails a check that can be skipped by author-approval, it will mention so in the comment, and direct authors to comment `[merge approved]` if they want to skip the check.
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+        * When AutoMerge fails a check that can be skipped by author-approval, it will mention so in the comment, and direct authors to comment `[merge approved]` if they want to skip the check.