diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index f1e2425375190..eb4f03cdf4083 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -158,15 +158,10 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.Series.sparse.sp_values SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.sparse.to_coo PR07,RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.std PR01,RT03,SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.str.lstrip RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.match RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.normalize RT03,SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.str.partition RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.repeat SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.replace SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.str.rpartition RT03" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.str.rstrip RT03" \
-        -i "pandas.Series.str.strip RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.wrap RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Series.str.zfill RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Series.struct.dtypes SA01" \
diff --git a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
index 8a2e1cd3f0271..1014c9559afaf 100644
--- a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
+++ b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
@@ -969,6 +969,8 @@ def rsplit(self, pat=None, *, n=-1, expand: bool = False):
     Returns
     -------
     DataFrame/MultiIndex or Series/Index of objects
+        Returns appropriate type based on `expand` parameter with strings
+        split based on the `sep` parameter.
 
     See Also
     --------
@@ -2127,6 +2129,7 @@ def encode(self, encoding, errors: str = "strict"):
     Returns
     -------
     Series or Index of object
+        Series or Index with the strings being stripped from the %(side)s.
 
     See Also
     --------