diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
index bf7f33d29..70384f936 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Logging.hs
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ showLogMessage msg =
 messageVerbosity:: LogMessage -> Verbosity
 messageVerbosity msg =
   case msg of
-       SkippedContent{}             -> INFO
+       SkippedContent{}             -> WARNING
        CouldNotParseYamlMetadata{}  -> WARNING
        DuplicateLinkReference{}     -> WARNING
        DuplicateNoteReference{}     -> WARNING