diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c0c23166880..850995273bc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ ignore = [
     "D202",  # No blank lines allowed after function docstring
     "D203",  # 1 blank line required before class docstring
     "D213",  # Multi-line docstring summary should start at the second line
-    "D404",  # First word of the docstring should not be This
     "D406",  # Section name should end with a newline
     "D407",  # Section name underlining
     "E501",  # line too long