diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/templates/spider_basic.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/templates/spider_basic.tmpl
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+from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
+
+class $classname(BaseSpider):
+    domain_name = "$site"
+    start_urls = (
+        'http://www.$site/',
+        )
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        return ()
+
+SPIDER = $classname()
+