diff --git a/docs/topics/practices.rst b/docs/topics/practices.rst
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@@ -183,21 +183,3 @@ If you are still unable to prevent your bot getting banned, consider contacting
 .. _testspiders: https://github.com/scrapinghub/testspiders
 .. _Twisted Reactor Overview: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/reactor-basics.html
 .. _Crawlera: http://crawlera.com
-
-.. _dynamic-item-classes:
-
-Dynamic Creation of Item Classes
-================================
-
-For applications in which the structure of item class is to be determined by
-user input or other changing conditions you can return regular Python 
-dicts from spiders.
-
-Another option is to dynamically create Item classes::
-
-    from scrapy.item import DictItem, Field
-
-    def create_item_class(class_name, field_list):
-        fields = {field_name: Field() for field_name in field_list}
-
-        return type(class_name, (DictItem,), {'fields': fields})