diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index 4a3d9185a..94c0ee0e6 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -107,11 +107,10 @@ $(manual-pdfs): %.pdf: %.xml
 $(manual-pages-part-html): %.part.html: %.xml
 	xsltproc /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/xhtml5/docbook.xsl $< | \
 	perl -pe 'BEGIN {undef $$/} s/.*<body[^>]*>(.*)<\/body\s*>.*/$$1/si' > $@
-	rm -f $(dir $@)docbook.css
+	@rm -f $(dir $@)docbook.css
 
 $(manual-xmls) $(manual-pages-xml): %.xml: %.raw.wiki $(SCRIPTS_DIR)/wikiparser.py
-	$(SCRIPTS_DIR)/wikiparser.py --begin-marker="## BEGIN_INCLUDE" \
-	    --end-marker='## END_INCLUDE' $< | xmllint --format - > $@
+	$(SCRIPTS_DIR)/wikiparser.py $< | xmllint --format - > $@
 
 %.1: %.xml
 	xmlto man $<
diff --git a/doc/scripts/wikiparser.py b/doc/scripts/wikiparser.py
index 141046bf2..4f49db34f 100755
--- a/doc/scripts/wikiparser.py
+++ b/doc/scripts/wikiparser.py
@@ -2047,9 +2047,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                         help='Skip module doctests')
     parser.add_argument('--debug', action='store_true',
                         help='Show parser output')
-    parser.add_argument('--begin-marker', default=None,
+    parser.add_argument('--begin-marker', default='## BEGIN_INCLUDE',
                         help='Start parsing at this line')
-    parser.add_argument('--end-marker', default=None,
+    parser.add_argument('--end-marker', default='## END_INCLUDE',
                         help='Stop parsing at this line')
     parser.add_argument('input', type=Path, nargs='*',
                         help='input file path(s)')