diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f62bd728bb..2b4a586085 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ If you like to run individual tests, run:
 
 * ``tox -e checkbuild`` - to actually build the manual
 * ``tox -e checklang`` - to build translated manuals
-* ``tox -e checkniceness`` - to run the niceness tests
+* ``tox -e linters`` - to run the niceness tests
 * ``tox -e linkcheck`` - to run the tests for working remote URLs
 
 The ``tox`` command uses the openstack-doc-tools package to run the
diff --git a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/docs-builds.rst b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/docs-builds.rst
index 21768bfa07..d218bfce3a 100644
--- a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/docs-builds.rst
+++ b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/docs-builds.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ command from the base directory of repository:
 
 The following individual checks are also available:
 
-* :command:`tox -e checkniceness` - to run the niceness tests (for example,
+* :command:`tox -e linters` - to run the lint tests (for example,
   to see extra whitespaces)
 * :command:`tox -e checklang` - to check all the translated manuals
 * :command:`tox -e docs` - to build only RST-sourced manuals
diff --git a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/rst-conv/general-guidelines.rst b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/rst-conv/general-guidelines.rst
index cbd8523b0c..5950372dad 100644
--- a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/rst-conv/general-guidelines.rst
+++ b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/rst-conv/general-guidelines.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Space and tab characters
 * Do not use tab characters within the code, use space characters instead.
 
 * Do not place space characters at the end of lines. If used,
-  the checkniceness test will fail because of trailing whitespaces.
+  the linters test will fail because of trailing whitespaces.
 
 Indentation
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