diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 75e0af63b..dbe3e9e44 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -229,8 +229,7 @@ BOT_NAME
 Default: ``'scrapybot'``
 
 The name of the bot implemented by this Scrapy project (also known as the
-project name). This will be used to construct the User-Agent by default, and
-also for logging.
+project name) and also for logging.
 
 It's automatically populated with your project name when you create your
 project with the :command:`startproject` command.