diff --git a/scrapy/commands/shell.py b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
index 19138ffd0..1e57b4a8a 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Scrapy Shell
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/shell.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
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/item.py b/scrapy/item.py
index 4d99ea79d..79333a7d1 100644
--- a/scrapy/item.py
+++ b/scrapy/item.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Scrapy Item
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/items.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from abc import ABCMeta
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
diff --git a/scrapy/pipelines/__init__.py b/scrapy/pipelines/__init__.py
index 383c461e6..9e8bc4df3 100644
--- a/scrapy/pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Item pipeline
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
diff --git a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
index 44c422430..1763bda42 100644
--- a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
+++ b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Files Pipeline
-
-See documentation in topics/media-pipeline.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import base64
diff --git a/scrapy/pipelines/images.py b/scrapy/pipelines/images.py
index 79b6c4f27..cd2d5d43e 100644
--- a/scrapy/pipelines/images.py
+++ b/scrapy/pipelines/images.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Images Pipeline
-
-See documentation in topics/media-pipeline.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import functools
diff --git a/scrapy/shell.py b/scrapy/shell.py
index dfea00c46..1856787c4 100644
--- a/scrapy/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/shell.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""Scrapy Shell
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/shell.rst
-
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
diff --git a/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py b/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py
index de527d04f..52422ce62 100644
--- a/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-"""
-Base class for Scrapy spiders
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/spiders.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
diff --git a/scrapy/spiders/crawl.py b/scrapy/spiders/crawl.py
index 373c0b8b5..19c054035 100644
--- a/scrapy/spiders/crawl.py
+++ b/scrapy/spiders/crawl.py
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-"""
-This modules implements the CrawlSpider which is the recommended spider to use
-for scraping typical websites that requires crawling pages.
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/spiders.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import copy
diff --git a/scrapy/spiders/feed.py b/scrapy/spiders/feed.py
index 925f31ede..b7d582092 100644
--- a/scrapy/spiders/feed.py
+++ b/scrapy/spiders/feed.py
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-"""
-This module implements the XMLFeedSpider which is the recommended spider to use
-for scraping from an XML feed.
-
-See documentation in docs/topics/spiders.rst
-"""
-
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any