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@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ How can I see the cookies being sent and received from Scrapy?
 
 Enable the :setting:`COOKIES_DEBUG` setting.
 
-How can I manually stop a running spider?
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+How can I instruct a spider to stop itself?
+-------------------------------------------
 
 Raise the :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider` exception from a callback. For
 more info see: :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider`.