diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/tests/test_views.py b/django/contrib/auth/tests/test_views.py
index dcfda61ca9d..710324b2a15 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/tests/test_views.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from importlib import import_module
 import itertools
 import os
 import re
+import warnings
 
 from django.apps import apps
 from django.conf import global_settings, settings
@@ -160,10 +161,12 @@ class PasswordResetTest(AuthViewsTestCase):
     @override_settings(ALLOWED_HOSTS=['adminsite.com'])
     def test_admin_reset(self):
         "If the reset view is marked as being for admin, the HTTP_HOST header is used for a domain override."
-        response = self.client.post('/admin_password_reset/',
-            {'email': 'staffmember@example.com'},
-            HTTP_HOST='adminsite.com'
-        )
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+            warnings.simplefilter("always")
+            response = self.client.post('/admin_password_reset/',
+                {'email': 'staffmember@example.com'},
+                HTTP_HOST='adminsite.com'
+            )
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 302)
         self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 1)
         self.assertTrue("http://adminsite.com" in mail.outbox[0].body)
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/views.py b/django/contrib/auth/views.py
index 969ab810d88..4d2543a4615 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/views.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+import warnings
+
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, QueryDict
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 from django.utils.http import is_safe_url, urlsafe_base64_decode
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from django.utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse
@@ -159,6 +162,12 @@ def password_reset(request, is_admin_site=False,
                 'html_email_template_name': html_email_template_name,
             }
             if is_admin_site:
+                warnings.warn(
+                    "The is_admin_site argument to "
+                    "django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset() is deprecated "
+                    "and will be removed in Django 2.0.",
+                    RemovedInDjango20Warning, 3
+                )
                 opts = dict(opts, domain_override=request.get_host())
             form.save(**opts)
             return HttpResponseRedirect(post_reset_redirect)
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index eca4a5f4f3f..10ef6e5850e 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ about each item can often be found in the release notes of two versions prior.
 * The ``remove_tags()`` and ``strip_entities()`` functions in
   ``django.utils.html`` will be removed.
 
+* The ``is_admin_site`` argument to
+  ``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset()`` will be removed.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.9:
 
 1.9
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index e5cecc230c0..b720c036ede 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -708,3 +708,8 @@ they are not actually safe.
 
 The unused and undocumented ``django.utils.html.strip_entities()`` function has
 also been deprecated.
+
+``is_admin_site`` argument to ``django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset()``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+It's a legacy option that should no longer be necessary.
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
index 2b7eeba7ac9..149b8d314c0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
@@ -984,6 +984,11 @@ patterns.
 
         ``html_email_template_name`` was added.
 
+    .. deprecated:: 1.8
+
+        The ``is_admin_site`` argument is deprecated and will be removed in
+        Django 2.0.
+
     **Template context:**
 
     * ``form``: The form (see ``password_reset_form`` above) for resetting