diff --git a/admin/authors.el b/admin/authors.el
index fc6bc2af2f7..75843e259ae 100644
--- a/admin/authors.el
+++ b/admin/authors.el
@@ -912,7 +912,9 @@ Changes to files in this list are not listed.")
     ("Jamie Zawinski" :changed "bytecode.c" :wrote "tar-mode.el"
      :cowrote "disass.el")
     ("Andrea Corallo" :wrote "comp.c"))
-  "Actions taken from the original, manually (un)maintained AUTHORS file.")
+  "Manual fixes to the list of actions taken.
+These are mostly taken from the original, manually (un)maintained
+AUTHORS file.  There are also some more recent manual additions.")
 
 
 (defconst authors-valid-file-names