diff --git a/django/conf/app_template/urls/__init__.py b/django/conf/app_template/urls/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/django/conf/app_template/urls/app_name.py b/django/conf/app_template/urls/app_name.py
deleted file mode 100644
index de814a56d1..0000000000
--- a/django/conf/app_template/urls/app_name.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
-
-urlpatterns = patterns('{{ project_name }}.apps.{{ app_name }}.views',
-#    (r'', ''),
-)
diff --git a/docs/tutorial01.txt b/docs/tutorial01.txt
index 60f370e5a9..b53dea1634 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial01.txt
+++ b/docs/tutorial01.txt
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@ That'll create a directory structure like this::
         models/
             __init__.py
             polls.py
-        urls/
-            __init__.py
-            polls.py
         views/
             __init__.py
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorial03.txt b/docs/tutorial03.txt
index 5b42c960fe..57d411c157 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/tutorial03.txt
@@ -369,9 +369,10 @@ We've been editing the URLs in ``myproject/settings/urls/main.py``, but the
 URL design of an app is specific to the app, not to the Django installation --
 so let's move the URLs within the app directory.
 
-Just copy the file ``myproject/settings/urls/main.py`` to
-``myproject/apps/polls/urls/polls.py``, which had already been created, as a
-stub, by ``django-admin.py startapp``.
+Create a directory ``myproject/apps/polls/urls/``, and put a blank file called
+``__init__.py`` into it. (The ``__init__.py`` file is necessary for Python to
+treat the directory as a package.) Then copy the file
+``myproject/settings/urls/main.py`` to ``myproject/apps/polls/urls/polls.py``.
 
 Then, change ``myproject/settings/urls/main.py`` to remove the poll-specific
 URLs and insert an ``include()``::