diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
index b9c8721bf56..ddc97db3e5c 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
@@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ is where you define your own validation that works at the formset level::
     ...             return
     ...         titles = []
     ...         for form in self.forms:
-    ...             title = form.cleaned_data['title']
+    ...             if self.can_delete and self._should_delete_form(form):
+    ...                 continue
+    ...             title = form.cleaned_data.get('title')
     ...             if title in titles:
     ...                 raise forms.ValidationError("Articles in a set must have distinct titles.")
     ...             titles.append(title)