diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
index 72f25ebef..486df6b71 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
 # Configure item pipelines
 # See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html
 #ITEM_PIPELINES = {
-#    '$project_name.pipelines.SomePipeline': 300,
+#    '$project_name.pipelines.${ProjectName}Pipeline': 300,
 #}
 
 # Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)