diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index f022e0176a987..b57426dbb2078 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.errors.IntCastingNaNError SA01" \
         -i "pandas.errors.InvalidIndexError SA01" \
         -i "pandas.errors.InvalidVersion SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.errors.MergeError SA01" \
         -i "pandas.errors.NullFrequencyError SA01" \
         -i "pandas.errors.NumExprClobberingError SA01" \
         -i "pandas.errors.NumbaUtilError SA01" \
diff --git a/pandas/errors/__init__.py b/pandas/errors/__init__.py
index 2f625090e0492..7851bc90c5782 100644
--- a/pandas/errors/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/errors/__init__.py
@@ -261,6 +261,11 @@ class MergeError(ValueError):
 
     Subclass of ``ValueError``.
 
+    See Also
+    --------
+    DataFrame.join : For joining DataFrames on their indexes.
+    merge : For merging two DataFrames on a common set of keys.
+
     Examples
     --------
     >>> left = pd.DataFrame(