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@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ Please see [**README**](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3
 
 ## Source Files and Documentation
 
-If you intend to build wxWidgets from sources (which is recommended), please download `wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc` archive in either [ZIP](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip) or [7z](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z), for much smaller size, format for Microsoft Windows systems or the [compressed tarball](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2) for Unix ones, including macOS. These archives have exactly the same contents, but use the line endings appropriate for the corresponding platform. Be sure to _not_ download the files available from the "Source code" links above, which are automatically generated by GitHub and don't contain the submodules sources which are necessary for building wxWidgets.
+If you intend to build wxWidgets from sources (which is recommended), please do **NOT** download the files using the "Source code" links just above, which are automatically generated by GitHub and don't contain the submodules sources which are necessary for building wxWidgets.
+
+Instead, download one of [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.zip) or [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.7z), for much smaller size, for Microsoft Windows systems or [wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.1-rc/wxWidgets-3.1.1-rc.tar.bz2) for Unix ones, including macOS. These archives have exactly the same contents, but use the line endings appropriate for the corresponding platform.
 
 In addition, we provide archives containing the documentation in either HTML or Microsoft CHM formats. Notice that the documentation is also [available online](http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1).