diff --git a/src/wp-includes/wp-db.php b/src/wp-includes/wp-db.php
index b1eeb0165b..87d8593f03 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/wp-db.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/wp-db.php
@@ -1964,13 +1964,13 @@ class wpdb {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Adds field charsets to field/value/format arrays
-	 * generated by the process_field_formats() method.
+	 * Adds field charsets to field/value/format arrays generated by
+	 * the {@see wpdb::process_field_formats()} method.
 	 *
 	 * @since 4.1.0
 	 * @access protected
 	 *
-	 * @param array  $data  As it comes from the process_field_formats() method.
+	 * @param array  $data  As it comes from the {@see wpdb::process_field_formats()} method.
 	 * @param string $table Table name.
 	 * @return The same array as $data with additional 'charset' keys.
 	 */
@@ -2161,7 +2161,7 @@ class wpdb {
 	 * @access protected
 	 *
 	 * @param string $table Table name.
-	 * @return string|WP_Error Table character set, `WP_Error` object if it couldn't be found.
+	 * @return string|WP_Error Table character set, {@see WP_Error} object if it couldn't be found.
 	 */
 	protected function get_table_charset( $table ) {
 		$table = strtolower( $table );
@@ -2254,9 +2254,8 @@ class wpdb {
 	 *
 	 * @param string $table  Table name.
 	 * @param string $column Column name.
-	 * @return mixed Column character set as a string.
-	 *               False if the column has no character set.
-	 *               `WP_Error` object if there was an error.
+	 * @return mixed Column character set as a string. False if the column has no
+	 *               character set. {@see WP_Error} object if there was an error.
 	 */
 	protected function get_col_charset( $table, $column ) {
 		$table = strtolower( $table );
@@ -2347,7 +2346,7 @@ class wpdb {
 	 * @return array|WP_Error The $data parameter, with invalid characters removed from
 	 *                        each value. This works as a passthrough: any additional keys
 	 *                        such as 'field' are retained in each value array. If we cannot
-	 *                        remove invalid characters, a `WP_Error` object is returned.
+	 *                        remove invalid characters, a {@see WP_Error} object is returned.
 	 */
 	protected function strip_invalid_text( $data ) {
 		// Some multibyte character sets that we can check in PHP.
@@ -2469,7 +2468,7 @@ class wpdb {
 	 * @access protected
 	 *
 	 * @param string $query Query to convert.
-	 * @return string|WP_Error The converted query, or a `WP_Error` object if the conversion fails.
+	 * @return string|WP_Error The converted query, or a {@see WP_Error} object if the conversion fails.
 	 */
 	protected function strip_invalid_text_from_query( $query ) {
 		$table = $this->get_table_from_query( $query );