diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
index f3679287ad..1dbb427036 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ editing content:
 
 .. note::
 
-    Some of the examples on this page assume that an ``Article`` model has been
+    Some of the examples on this page assume that an ``Author`` model has been
     defined as follows in ``myapp/models.py``::
 
         from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse