diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/modal-delete-user.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/modal-delete-user.hbs
index e0f79931d9..12e0be9d27 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/modal-delete-user.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/modal-delete-user.hbs
@@ -4,20 +4,17 @@
 <a class="close" href="" title="Close" {{action "closeModal"}}>{{svg-jar "close"}}<span class="hidden">Close</span></a>
 
 <div class="modal-body">
-    <p><strong>WARNING:</strong> You are about to delete the user '<strong>{{this.user.name}}</strong>'. There is no way to recover this.</p>
     {{#if this.user.count.posts}}
-        <ul>
-            <li>The user will not have access to this site anymore</li>
-            <li><strong data-test-text="user-post-count">{{pluralize this.user.count.posts 'post'}}</strong> by this user will be deleted</li>
-            <li>All other user data will be deleted</li>
-            <li>A backup of the site will be automatically downloaded to your computer before deletion</li>
-        </ul>
+        <p>
+            <strong>{{this.user.name}}</strong> and their <strong data-test-text="user-post-count">{{pluralize this.user.count.posts 'post'}}</strong> will be permanently deleted. If you don’t want to lose these posts, you should assign them to a different author.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+            A backup will be automatically downloaded to your device before deletion.
+        </p>
     {{else}}
-        <ul>
-            <li>The user will not have access to this site anymore</li>
-            <li>All user data will be deleted</li>
-            <li>A backup of the site will be automatically downloaded to your computer before deletion</li>
-        </ul>
+        <p>
+            <strong>{{this.user.name}}</strong> will be permanently deleted. A backup will be automatically downloaded to your device before deletion.
+        </p>
     {{/if}}
 </div>
 
@@ -25,7 +22,7 @@
     <button {{action "closeModal"}} class="gh-btn" data-test-button="cancel-delete-user">
         <span>Cancel</span>
     </button>
-    <GhTaskButton @buttonText={{if this.user.count.posts "Delete user and their posts" "Delete user"}}
+    <GhTaskButton @buttonText="Download backup & delete user"
         @successText="Deleted"
         @task={{this.deleteUser}}
         @class="gh-btn gh-btn-red gh-btn-icon"