diff --git a/core/modules/locale/locale.compare.inc b/core/modules/locale/locale.compare.inc
index c27e350..3ba1008 100644
--- a/core/modules/locale/locale.compare.inc
+++ b/core/modules/locale/locale.compare.inc
@@ -39,9 +39,8 @@ function locale_translation_get_projects() {
     // Get project data from the database.
     $result = db_query('SELECT name, project_type, core, version, server_pattern, status FROM {locale_project}');
 
-    // @todo: http://drupal.org/node/1627006#comment-6396658
-    // This may not be sufficient to check if the information is out of date for
-    // sites that are not running cron.php regularly.
+    // http://drupal.org/node/1777106 is a follow-up issue to make the check for
+    // possible out-of-date project information more robust.
     if ($result->rowCount() == 0 && module_exists('update')) {
       // At least the core project should be in the database, so we build the
       // data if none are found.
diff --git a/core/modules/locale/locale.install b/core/modules/locale/locale.install
index bd52f89..afe25ac 100644
--- a/core/modules/locale/locale.install
+++ b/core/modules/locale/locale.install
@@ -175,14 +175,16 @@ function locale_schema() {
         'not null' => TRUE,
       ),
       'core' => array(
-        'description' => 'Core compatibility string for this project, for example: 7.x.',
+        // http://drupal.org/node/542202#core has an example.
+        'description' => 'Core compatibility string for this project, for example: 8.x',
         'type' => 'varchar',
         'length' => 4,
         'not null' => TRUE,
         'default' => '',
       ),
       'version' => array(
-        'description' => 'The version release of the project, for example: 7.x-1.0.',
+        // http://drupal.org/node/467026 has examples.
+        'description' => 'The version release of the project, for example: 8.x-2.1 or 8.x-1.0-dev',
         'type' => 'varchar',
         'length' => 128,
         'not null' => TRUE,