diff --git a/awx/api/templates/api/system_job_template_launch.md b/awx/api/templates/api/system_job_template_launch.md
index f918840d24..4543014005 100644
--- a/awx/api/templates/api/system_job_template_launch.md
+++ b/awx/api/templates/api/system_job_template_launch.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Make a POST request to this resource to launch the system job template.
 An extra parameter `extra_vars` is suggested in order to pass extra parameters
 to the system job task.
 
-For example on `cleanup_jobs`, `cleanup_deleted`, and `cleanup_activitystream`:
+For example on `cleanup_jobs` and `cleanup_activitystream`:
 
 `{"days": 30}`
 
diff --git a/awx/main/migrations/0010_v300_create_system_job_templates.py b/awx/main/migrations/0010_v300_create_system_job_templates.py
index 553a4f58c3..c67d5c8702 100644
--- a/awx/main/migrations/0010_v300_create_system_job_templates.py
+++ b/awx/main/migrations/0010_v300_create_system_job_templates.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.db import migrations
+from django.db import migrations, models
 from django.utils.timezone import now
 
 from awx.api.license import feature_enabled
@@ -96,4 +96,14 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
 
     operations = [
         migrations.RunPython(create_system_job_templates, migrations.RunPython.noop),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='systemjob',
+            name='job_type',
+            field=models.CharField(default=b'', max_length=32, blank=True, choices=[(b'cleanup_jobs', 'Remove jobs older than a certain number of days'), (b'cleanup_activitystream', 'Remove activity stream entries older than a certain number of days'), (b'cleanup_facts', 'Purge and/or reduce the granularity of system tracking data')]),
+        ),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='systemjobtemplate',
+            name='job_type',
+            field=models.CharField(default=b'', max_length=32, blank=True, choices=[(b'cleanup_jobs', 'Remove jobs older than a certain number of days'), (b'cleanup_activitystream', 'Remove activity stream entries older than a certain number of days'), (b'cleanup_facts', 'Purge and/or reduce the granularity of system tracking data')]),
+        ),
     ]
diff --git a/awx/main/models/jobs.py b/awx/main/models/jobs.py
index 5fa332ac20..fc415b9af1 100644
--- a/awx/main/models/jobs.py
+++ b/awx/main/models/jobs.py
@@ -1169,7 +1169,6 @@ class SystemJobOptions(BaseModel):
     SYSTEM_JOB_TYPE = [
         ('cleanup_jobs', _('Remove jobs older than a certain number of days')),
         ('cleanup_activitystream', _('Remove activity stream entries older than a certain number of days')),
-        ('cleanup_deleted', _('Purge previously deleted items from the database')),
         ('cleanup_facts', _('Purge and/or reduce the granularity of system tracking data')),
     ]