diff --git a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
index 308d0b4d33..665085b17b 100644
--- a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
+++ b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
+"""{{ project_name }} URL Configuration
+
+The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
+    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/{{ docs_version }}/topics/http/urls/
+Examples:
+Function views
+    1. Add an import:  from my_app import views
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', views.home, name='home')
+Class-based views
+    1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', Home.as_view(), name='home')
+Including another URLconf
+    1. Add an import:  from blog import urls as blog_urls
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^blog/', include(blog_urls))
+"""
 from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    # Examples:
-    # url(r'^$', '{{ project_name }}.views.home', name='home'),
-    # url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
-
     url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
 ]
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
index 9d7c5add38..fd2140bbf0 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
@@ -44,3 +44,8 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Fixed database introspection with SQLite 3.8.9 (released April 8, 2015)
   (:ticket:`24637`).
+
+* Updated ``urlpatterns`` examples generated by :djadmin:`startproject` to
+  remove usage of referencing views by dotted path in
+  :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` which is deprecated in Django 1.8
+  (:ticket:`24635`).