diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_metrics.py b/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_metrics.py
index da917e673c..1969480503 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_metrics.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/postprocessing/template_metrics.py
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def _set_params(
             metric_names += get_multi_channel_template_metric_names()
 
         if metrics_kwargs is not None and metric_params is None:
-            deprecation_msg = "`metrics_kwargs` is deprecated and will be removed in version 0.104.0. Please use metric_params instead"
+            deprecation_msg = "`metrics_kwargs` is deprecated and will be removed in version 0.104.0. Please use `metric_params` instead"
             deprecation_msg = "`metrics_kwargs` is deprecated and will be removed in version 0.104.0. Please use `metric_params` instead"
 
             metric_params = {}