diff --git a/doc/source/irc.rst b/doc/source/irc.rst
index 040e861dfa..f3109d8850 100644
--- a/doc/source/irc.rst
+++ b/doc/source/irc.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Access
 <https://www.oftc.net/Services/>`_ and give the
 infrastructure team account master access to the channel with::
 
-  /msg chanserv register #channel
+  /msg chanserv register #channel Some channel description here
   /msg chanserv access #channel add opendevaccess master
 
 This is good practice project-wide to make sure we keep channels under