This seems to be headed down the path of duplicating https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/django-admin/#what-s-a-fixture. I always thought it was awkward to put that extensive discussion of fixtures on the django-admin page. Maybe we could move it here instead?

Tim, thanks for the feedback, and thanks for pointing me to that material on the admin page! I have searched the docs many times for info about fixtures and that page has never come up high enough on the search rankings for me to see it, so I suspect that consolidating that material away from the rest of the admin stuff will also make it much easier to find.

I am happy to take a shot at what you suggest, but I would like your opinion on approach first. The material on the ref/admin page seems to me to be way more detailed and, well, "ref-like" than the material usually found on howto pages. I notice that there is no ref page on fixtures (and have always wondered why). Do you think it would sense for me to make a ref/fixtures page, collect all the reference material on fixtures on that page, and reference it from both the howto/fixures and ref/admin pages?

Sure, we could see what a new page looks like. Putting it in topics/ rather than ref/ seems like a better fit.

Please send a new PR if you return to this.