diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
index 81b42e09827..d8b79331383 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
@@ -48,11 +48,9 @@ ArchiveIndexView
     :class:`django.views.generic.dates.BaseDateListView`), the template's
     context will be:
 
-    * ``date_list``: A
-      :meth:`DateQuerySet<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>` object
-      containing all years that have objects available according to
-      ``queryset``, represented as
-      :class:`datetime.datetime<python:datetime.datetime>` objects, in
+    * ``date_list``: A :meth:`QuerySet <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>`
+      object containing all years that have objects available according to
+      ``queryset``, represented as :class:`datetime.datetime` objects, in
       descending order.
 
     **Notes**
@@ -128,11 +126,9 @@ YearArchiveView
     :class:`django.views.generic.dates.BaseDateListView`), the template's
     context will be:
 
-    * ``date_list``: A
-      :meth:`DateQuerySet<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>` object
-      containing all months that have objects available according to
-      ``queryset``, represented as
-      :class:`datetime.datetime<python:datetime.datetime>` objects, in
+    * ``date_list``: A :meth:`QuerySet <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>`
+      object containing all months that have objects available according to
+      ``queryset``, represented as :class:`datetime.datetime` objects, in
       ascending order.
 
     * ``year``: A :class:`~datetime.date` object
@@ -223,12 +219,10 @@ MonthArchiveView
     :class:`~django.views.generic.dates.BaseDateListView`), the template's
     context will be:
 
-    * ``date_list``: A
-      :meth:`DateQuerySet<django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>` object
-      containing all days that have objects available in the given month,
-      according to ``queryset``, represented as
-      :class:`datetime.datetime<python:datetime.datetime>` objects, in
-      ascending order.
+    * ``date_list``: A :meth:`QuerySet <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.dates>`
+      object containing all days that have objects available in the given month,
+      according to ``queryset``, represented as :class:`datetime.datetime`
+      objects, in ascending order.
 
     * ``month``: A :class:`~datetime.date` object
       representing the given month.
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
index 47a75ddfc6f..3b681dc543c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
@@ -646,9 +646,9 @@ dates
 
 .. method:: dates(field, kind, order='ASC')
 
-Returns a ``DateQuerySet`` — a ``QuerySet`` that evaluates to a list of
-:class:`datetime.date` objects representing all available dates of a
-particular kind within the contents of the ``QuerySet``.
+Returns a ``QuerySet`` that evaluates to a list of :class:`datetime.date`
+objects representing all available dates of a particular kind within the
+contents of the ``QuerySet``.
 
 ``field`` should be the name of a ``DateField`` of your model.
 ``kind`` should be either ``"year"``, ``"month"`` or ``"day"``. Each
diff --git a/tests/aggregation_regress/tests.py b/tests/aggregation_regress/tests.py
index 44c0f0c07fb..beb87bdb3a8 100644
--- a/tests/aggregation_regress/tests.py
+++ b/tests/aggregation_regress/tests.py
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ class AggregationTests(TestCase):
             lambda b: b.name
         )
 
-        # Regression for #10248 - Annotations work with DateQuerySets
+        # Regression for #10248 - Annotations work with dates()
         qs = Book.objects.annotate(num_authors=Count('authors')).filter(num_authors=2).dates('pubdate', 'day')
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(
             qs, [
diff --git a/tests/queries/tests.py b/tests/queries/tests.py
index d97f909ad23..23c98910792 100644
--- a/tests/queries/tests.py
+++ b/tests/queries/tests.py
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ class Queries1Tests(BaseQuerysetTest):
             3
         )
 
-        # Pickling of DateQuerySets used to fail
+        # Pickling of QuerySets using datetimes() should work.
         qs = Item.objects.datetimes('created', 'month')
         pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(qs))
 
@@ -1302,8 +1302,8 @@ class Queries3Tests(BaseQuerysetTest):
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(Valid.objects.all(), [])
 
     def test_ticket8683(self):
-        # Raise proper error when a DateQuerySet gets passed a wrong type of
-        # field
+        # An error should be raised when QuerySet.datetimes() is passed the
+        # wrong type of field.
         self.assertRaisesMessage(
             AssertionError,
             "'name' isn't a DateTimeField.",