diff --git a/lint.whitelist b/lint.whitelist
index 7954856d950fafd9722ed63959e3d48edd73892e..02101a6602d2930b571b3b91f31b8a9c1c504c7e 100644
--- a/lint.whitelist
+++ b/lint.whitelist
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
-# This file documents authorship information and is not itself a test
-test/built-ins/Simd/AUTHORS FRONTMATTER LICENSE
+# Tests that intentionally violate the project's linting rules (along with a
+# space-separated list of the specific rules they violate) should be specified
+# in this file.
+#
+# Example:
+#
+# test/language/made-up-file.js FRONTMATTER LICENSE
+#
+# Note that lines prefixed with the "hash" symbol (#) will be ignored.