diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
index 1df512a9c0..ac2e65925c 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ class GEOSTest(unittest.TestCase, TestDataMixin):
         tgeoms = get_geoms(self.geometries.points)
         tgeoms.extend(get_geoms(self.geometries.multilinestrings, 4326))
         tgeoms.extend(get_geoms(self.geometries.polygons, 3084))
-        tgeoms.extend(get_geoms(self.geometries.multipolygons, 900913))
+        tgeoms.extend(get_geoms(self.geometries.multipolygons, 3857))
 
         for geom in tgeoms:
             s1, s2 = cPickle.dumps(geom), pickle.dumps(geom)
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/tests/test_spatialrefsys.py b/django/contrib/gis/tests/test_spatialrefsys.py
index 98e9d47699..968942ec07 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/tests/test_spatialrefsys.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/tests/test_spatialrefsys.py
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ class SpatialRefSysTest(unittest.TestCase):
         """
         from django.contrib.gis.utils import add_srs_entry
 
-        add_srs_entry(900913)
+        add_srs_entry(3857)
         self.assertTrue(
-            SpatialRefSys.objects.filter(srid=900913).exists()
+            SpatialRefSys.objects.filter(srid=3857).exists()
         )
-        srs = SpatialRefSys.objects.get(srid=900913)
+        srs = SpatialRefSys.objects.get(srid=3857)
         self.assertTrue(
             SpatialRefSys.get_spheroid(srs.wkt).startswith('SPHEROID[')
         )
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/utils/srs.py b/django/contrib/gis/utils/srs.py
index 8e72466de4..bb23866010 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/utils/srs.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/utils/srs.py
@@ -9,12 +9,10 @@ def add_srs_entry(srs, auth_name='EPSG', auth_srid=None, ref_sys_name=None,
     to the `spatial_ref_sys` table of the spatial backend.  Doing this enables
     database-level spatial transformations for the backend.  Thus, this utility
     is useful for adding spatial reference systems not included by default with
-    the backend -- for example, the so-called "Google Maps Mercator Projection"
-    is excluded in PostGIS 1.3 and below, and the following adds it to the
-    `spatial_ref_sys` table:
+    the backend:
 
     >>> from django.contrib.gis.utils import add_srs_entry
-    >>> add_srs_entry(900913)
+    >>> add_srs_entry(3857)
 
     Keyword Arguments:
      auth_name: