diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
index e24d26cd00..b4d315cb8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
@@ -11,8 +11,4 @@
 <xsl:param name="git.docbook.backslash">&#x2593;</xsl:param>
 <xsl:param name="git.docbook.dot"      >&#x2302;</xsl:param>
 
-<!-- these params silence some output from xmlto -->
-<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
-<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
-
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
index 6d3eb1912a..a264fa6160 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 		version="1.0">
 
+<!-- these params silence some output from xmlto -->
+<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
+<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
+
 <!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format;
      git.docbook.backslash and git.docbook.dot params
      must be supplied by another XSL file or other means -->