diff --git a/doc/source/api.rst b/doc/source/api.rst
index 2e6f693677e4e..bf9d521e2a12a 100644
--- a/doc/source/api.rst
+++ b/doc/source/api.rst
@@ -660,14 +660,6 @@ the Categorical back to a numpy array, so categories and order information is no
 
    Categorical.__array__
 
-Categorical methods
-
-.. autosummary::
-   :toctree: generated/
-
-   Categorical.unique
-   Categorical.value_counts
-
 Plotting
 ~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/base.py b/pandas/core/base.py
index 56bdeee6982d5..bdbfb7b949986 100644
--- a/pandas/core/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/base.py
@@ -871,8 +871,9 @@ def value_counts(self, normalize=False, sort=True, ascending=False,
 
         See Also
         --------
-        pandas.unique
-        pandas.Categorical.unique
+        unique
+        Index.unique
+        Series.unique
         """)
 
     @Appender(_shared_docs['unique'] % _indexops_doc_kwargs)