diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Check.txt b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Check.txt
index 3ec367f57..a71e39393 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Check.txt
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Check.txt
@@ -1,47 +1,68 @@
 check
-Check for various kinds of errors in your data.
+Check for various kinds of errors in your data. experimental
 
 _FLAGS
 
 hledger provides a number of built-in error checks to help prevent
-problems in your data. Some, but not all, of these are run automatically
-before all commands. You can also use this check command to run any of
-the available tests. They are named, and run, as follows:
+problems in your data. Some of these are run automatically; or, you can
+use this check command to run them on demand, with no output and a zero
+exit code if all is well. Some examples:
 
-hledger check runs the basic checks, like all other commands, but with
-no output unless there is a problem. These are:
+hledger check      # basic checks
+hledger check -s   # basic + strict checks
+hledger check ordereddates uniqueleafnames  # basic + specified checks
+
+Here are the checks currently available:
+
+Basic checks
+
+These are always run by this command and other commands:
 
 -   parseable - data files are well-formed and can be successfully
     parsed
+
 -   autobalanced - all transactions are balanced, inferring missing
     amounts where necessary, and possibly converting commodities using
     transaction prices or automatically-inferred transaction prices
--   assertions - all balance assertions are passing (except with
-    -I/--ignore-assertions)
 
-hledger check --strict also runs the additional "strict mode" checks,
-which are:
+-   assertions - all balance assertions in the journal are passing.
+    (This check can be disabled with -I/--ignore-assertions.)
+
+Strict checks
+
+These are always run by this and other commands when -s/--strict is used
+(strict mode):
 
 -   accounts - all account names used by transactions have been declared
+
 -   commodities - all commodity symbols used have been declared
 
-hledger check CHECK1 CHECK2 ... runs all of the named checks, in turn.
-This may be useful when neither the default nor strict checks are
-exactly what you want, or when you want to focus on a single check of
-interest. The arguments are standard lowercase names for the checks.
-Currently only these checks can be run in this way:
+Other checks
 
--   dates - transactions are ordered by date (similar to the old
+These checks can be run by specifying their names as arguments to the
+check command:
+
+-   ordereddates - transactions are ordered by date (similar to the old
     check-dates command)
--   leafnames - all account leaf names are unique ((similar to the old
-    check-dupes command)
 
-See also:
+-   uniqueleafnames - all account leaf names are unique (similar to the
+    old check-dupes command)
 
-Some checks are shipped as addon scripts for now (cf
-https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/bin, and Cookbook ->
-Scripting):
+This command would run all of the checks above:
 
--   tagfiles - all tag values containing / (a forward slash) exist as
-    file paths
--   fancyassertions - more complex balance assertions are passing
+$ hledger check -s ordereddates uniqueleafnames
+
+Addon checks
+
+Some checks are not yet integrated with this command, but are available
+as [addon commands] in
+https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/bin:
+
+-   hledger-check-tagfiles - all tag values containing / (a forward
+    slash) exist as file paths
+
+-   hledger-check-fancyassertions - more complex balance assertions are
+    passing
+
+You could make your own similar scripts to perform custom checks;
+Cookbook -> Scripting may be helpful.