diff --git a/content/github/managing-your-work-on-github/linking-a-repository-to-a-project-board.md b/content/github/managing-your-work-on-github/linking-a-repository-to-a-project-board.md
index f2f3c7ef9eb2..e6710c6fc4bf 100644
--- a/content/github/managing-your-work-on-github/linking-a-repository-to-a-project-board.md
+++ b/content/github/managing-your-work-on-github/linking-a-repository-to-a-project-board.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ versions:
   free-pro-team: '*'
   enterprise-server: '*'
 ---
+{% note %}
+
+**Note:** In order to link a repository to your organization or user owned project board the repository needs to have issues enabled. For information on how to see if issues are disabled for a repository, see "[Disabling issues](/github/managing-your-work-on-github/disabling-issues) ."
+
+{% endnote %}
 
 Anyone with write permissions to a project board can link repositories owned by that organization or user account to the project board. For more information, see "[Project board permissions for an organization](/articles/project-board-permissions-for-an-organization/)" or "[Permission levels for user-owned project boards](/articles/permission-levels-for-user-owned-project-boards/)."