diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index f3e39b9..4e9419b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -1220,12 +1220,19 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
                     return qs
                 return qs.filter(author=request.user)
 
-.. method:: ModelAdmin.message_user(request, message)
+.. method:: ModelAdmin.message_user(request, message, level=messages.INFO)
 
     Sends a message to the user. The default implementation creates a message
     using the :mod:`django.contrib.messages` backend. See the
     :ref:`custom ModelAdmin example <custom-admin-action>`.
 
+    .. versionadded:: 1.5
+
+    ``level`` describes how the message will be displayed. 
+    The available message levels can be found here: :ref:`message levels <message-levels>`. 
+    By default ``level`` is set to ``messages.INFO``. 
+    
+
 .. method:: ModelAdmin.get_paginator(queryset, per_page, orphans=0, allow_empty_first_page=True)
 
     .. versionadded:: 1.3
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
index 4ab9734..d51c1ea 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ To write your own storage class, subclass the ``BaseStorage`` class in
 ``django.contrib.messages.storage.base`` and implement the ``_get`` and
 ``_store`` methods.
 
+.. _message-levels:
+
 Message levels
 --------------