diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks_conditionals.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks_conditionals.rst
index f441ed659e..ed818ee286 100644
--- a/docsite/rst/playbooks_conditionals.rst
+++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks_conditionals.rst
@@ -119,12 +119,13 @@ Applying 'when' to roles and includes
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 Note that if you have several tasks that all share the same conditional statement, you can affix the conditional
-to a task include statement as below.  Note this does not work with playbook includes, just task includes.  All the tasks
-get evaluated, but the conditional is applied to each and every task::
+to a task include statement as below.  All the tasks get evaluated, but the conditional is applied to each and every task::
 
     - include: tasks/sometasks.yml
       when: "'reticulating splines' in output"
 
+.. note:: In versions prior to 2.0 this worked with task includes but not playbook includes.  2.0 allows it to work with both.
+
 Or with a role::
 
     - hosts: webservers