diff --git a/lib/plugins/acl/admin.php b/lib/plugins/acl/admin.php
index 96f6aa4a52e71e8a9af26ae04e9653cd0ccc7086..8e0be08ceb4e3acad198cbc252bc37b18d42cb7c 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/acl/admin.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/acl/admin.php
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ class admin_plugin_acl extends DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin {
         $this->_html_table();
         echo '</div>'.NL;
 
+        echo '<div class="footnotes"><div class="fn">'.NL;
+        echo '<sup><a id="fn__1" class="fn_bot" name="fn__1" href="#fnt__1">1)</a></sup>'.NL;
+        echo $this->getLang('p_include');
+        echo '</div></div>';
+
         echo '</div>'.NL;
     }
 
@@ -535,7 +540,7 @@ class admin_plugin_acl extends DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin {
         echo '<tr>';
         echo '<th>'.$this->getLang('where').'</th>';
         echo '<th>'.$this->getLang('who').'</th>';
-        echo '<th>'.$this->getLang('perm').'</th>';
+        echo '<th>'.$this->getLang('perm').'<sup><a id="fnt__1" class="fn_top" name="fnt__1" href="#fn__1">1)</a></sup></th>';
         echo '<th>'.$lang['btn_delete'].'</th>';
         echo '</tr>';
         foreach($this->acl as $where => $set){
diff --git a/lib/plugins/acl/lang/en/lang.php b/lib/plugins/acl/lang/en/lang.php
index 039f2ee16848feedf10207aae4b29e40e55f4f54..38ff20c88889b4da0087234933307f53b12bcaf5 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/acl/lang/en/lang.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/acl/lang/en/lang.php
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ $lang['p_choose_ns']  = 'Please <b>enter a user or group</b> in the form above t
 
 $lang['p_inherited']  = 'Note: Those permissions were not set explicitly but were inherited from other groups or higher namespaces.';
 $lang['p_isadmin']    = 'Note: The selected group or user has always full permissions because it is configured as superuser.';
+$lang['p_include']    = 'Higher permissions include lower ones. Create, Upload and Delete permissions only apply to namespaces, not pages.';
 
 $lang['current'] = 'Current ACL Rules';
 $lang['where'] = 'Page/Namespace';