diff --git a/TODO.TXT b/TODO.TXT
index bd439de3e0..d2d7752b47 100644
--- a/TODO.TXT
+++ b/TODO.TXT
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ that need to be done.  I'm trying to be as granular as possible.
 2)  Update all old references to ``settings.DATABASE_*`` to reference
     ``settings.DATABASES``.  This includes the following locations
 
-    * internals/contributing -- still needs an update on TEST_*
     * ref/settings -- needs to be upddated for TEST_*
     * topics/testing -- needs update for the TEST_* settings, plus test refactor
 
diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing.txt b/docs/internals/contributing.txt
index 7ec152ec43..46255d439b 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing.txt
@@ -759,8 +759,8 @@ needed. A temporary database will be created in memory when running the tests.
 
 If you're using another backend:
 
-    * Your the ``DATABASE_USER`` option for the ``'default'`` datbase setting
-      needs to specify an existing user account for the database engine.
+    * Your the ``DATABASE_USER`` option for each of your databases needs to
+      specify an existing user account for the database.
 
     * The ``DATABASE_NAME`` option must be the name of an existing database to
       which the given user has permission to connect. The unit tests will not
@@ -771,8 +771,8 @@ If you're using another backend:
 
 You will also need to ensure that your database uses UTF-8 as the default
 character set. If your database server doesn't use UTF-8 as a default charset,
-you will need to include a value for ``TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET`` in your settings
-file.
+you will need to include a value for ``TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET`` in the settings
+dictionary for the applicable database.
 
 If you want to run the full suite of tests, you'll need to install a number of
 dependencies: