diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index 20a79d1b8d..d76d61f0b3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -847,6 +847,10 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
                 )
                 return my_urls + urls
 
+            def my_view(self, request):
+                # custom view which should return an HttpResponse
+                pass
+
     .. note::
 
         Notice that the custom patterns are included *before* the regular admin
@@ -854,6 +858,10 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
         anything, so you'll usually want to prepend your custom URLs to the
         built-in ones.
 
+        In this example, ``my_view`` will be accessed at
+        ``/admin/myapp/mymodel/my_view/`` (assuming the admin URLs are included
+        at ``/admin/``.)
+
     However, the ``self.my_view`` function registered above suffers from two
     problems: