There are 2 links to the “exclude” man page from https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Index-of-Command-Line-Options.html#SEC201 <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Index-of-Command-Line-Options.html#SEC201>
Each of the pages resides at a different URL, introducing the possibility that they are not always the same. — CZ