diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 9fda40f2c..86d51dfe2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Alex Rosen
 Alexei Yudichev
 Alexey Panchenko
 Alexey Solofnenko
+Alfred Theorin
 Alison Winters
 Andreas Ames
 Andreas Mross
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 459254d3e..b179c2b26 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Fixed bugs:
 
  * MailLogger ignore the Maillogger.starttls.enable property.
    Bugzilla Report 50668.
+   
+ * Delete task example does not work
+   Bugzilla Report 50816.  
 
 Other changes:
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diff --git a/contributors.xml b/contributors.xml
index f995390ff..6bb5aed5d 100644
--- a/contributors.xml
+++ b/contributors.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
     <first>Alexey</first>
     <last>Solofnenko</last>
   </name>
+  <name>
+    <first>Alfred</first>
+    <last>Theorin</last>
+  </name>
   <name>
     <first>Alison</first>
     <last>Winters</last>
diff --git a/docs/manual/Tasks/delete.html b/docs/manual/Tasks/delete.html
index 5f1eab4b9..b14edb9fc 100644
--- a/docs/manual/Tasks/delete.html
+++ b/docs/manual/Tasks/delete.html
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ and any subdirectories.</p>
 <code>build</code> itself.</p>
 
 <pre>  &lt;delete includeemptydirs=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
-    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src&quot; includes=&quot;**/.svn&quot; defaultexcludes=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;
+    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src&quot; includes=&quot;**/.svn/&quot; defaultexcludes=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;
   &lt;/delete&gt;
 </pre>
 <p>deletes the subversion metadata directories under <code>src</code>. Because <code>.svn</code>