From a382da4b601488165415850ce68434ad0fc81866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhesh Kulkarni <143459031+Sidmsu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 11:12:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove stale module-level docstrings pointing to docs

These three module docstrings only restated the module's name and
pointed to the corresponding docs/topics/*.rst page, which already
documents the module in full. No unique information was lost.

Partial pass on #7699; a broader sweep is still needed.
---
 scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/downloadtimeout.py | 6 ------
 scrapy/extension.py                             | 6 ------
 scrapy/loader/__init__.py                       | 6 ------
 3 files changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/downloadtimeout.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/downloadtimeout.py
index bccfb230c..79d0aebdf 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/downloadtimeout.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/downloadtimeout.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Download timeout middleware
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
diff --git a/scrapy/extension.py b/scrapy/extension.py
index 05cce326b..768804b7f 100644
--- a/scrapy/extension.py
+++ b/scrapy/extension.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-The Extension Manager
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/extensions.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
diff --git a/scrapy/loader/__init__.py b/scrapy/loader/__init__.py
index 8ee7dc16c..7ac324fd0 100644
--- a/scrapy/loader/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/loader/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Item Loader
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/loaders.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any