diff --git a/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/base_spider.py b/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/base_spider.py
index 3d450ff..404cf9d 100644
--- a/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/base_spider.py
+++ b/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/base_spider.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 class BaseSpider(scrapy.Spider):
     """
+    The base class for this project's spiders.
+
     With respect to the data's source:
 
     -  If the source can support ``from_date`` and ``until_date`` spider arguments:
@@ -46,11 +48,12 @@ def __init__(
         **kwargs,
     ):
         """
+        Initialize the spider.
+
         :param from_date: the date from which to download data (see :ref:`spider-arguments`)
         :param until_date: the date until which to download data (see :ref:`spider-arguments`)
         :param crawl_time: override the crawl's start time
         """
-
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
         # https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spiders.html#spider-arguments
@@ -111,6 +114,6 @@ def from_crawler(cls, crawler, *args, **kwargs):
 
     def parse_date_argument(self, date):
         """
-        Returns the date argument as a datetime object.
+        Return the date argument as a datetime object.
         """
         return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, self.date_format).replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
diff --git a/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/export_file_spider.py b/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/export_file_spider.py
index 6eb0dce..2036279 100644
--- a/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/export_file_spider.py
+++ b/generic_scrapy/base_spiders/export_file_spider.py
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
 class ExportFileSpider(BaseSpider):
     """
-    This class makes it easy to store the results from a spider into an individual CSV, JSON or both format files using
-    Scrapy's CSV and JSON Item Exporters.
+    Store items in a CSV file, JSON file or both, using Scrapy's CSV and JSON Item Exporters.
 
     #. Inherit from ``ExportFileSpider``
     #. Define a ``export_outputs`` dict, with the following structure:
diff --git a/generic_scrapy/util.py b/generic_scrapy/util.py
index 36fd228..9fa9f67 100644
--- a/generic_scrapy/util.py
+++ b/generic_scrapy/util.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 def replace_parameters(url, **kwargs):
     """
-    Returns a URL after updating the query string parameters' values.
+    Return a URL after updating the query string parameters' values.
     """
     parsed = urlsplit(url)
     query = parse_qs(parsed.query)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b48c17b..d338c1c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ignore = [
   "D203", "D212",  # ignore incompatible rules
   "D200",  # documentation preferences
   "C901", "PLR0912",  # complexity preferences
-  "D",  # docstrings
+  "D1",  # docstrings
   "PTH",  # pathlib
   "ARG002",  # Scrapy keyword arguments
   "ERA001",  # commented Scrapy settings