diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index d195b58496..be007c8cdf 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1221,9 +1221,9 @@ For example::
 
 .. django-admin-option:: --template TEMPLATE
 
-Provides the path to a directory with a custom app template file or a path to a
-compressed file (``.tar.gz``, ``.tar.bz2``, ``.tgz``, ``.tbz2``, ``.zip``)
-containing the app template files.
+Provides the path to a directory with a custom app template file, or a path to
+an uncompressed archive (``.tar``) or a compressed archive (``.tar.gz``,
+``.tar.bz2``, ``.tgz``, ``.tbz2``, ``.zip``) containing the app template files.
 
 For example, this would look for an app template in the given directory when
 creating the ``myapp`` app::