diff --git a/src/doc/en/reference/curves/index.rst b/src/doc/en/reference/curves/index.rst
index dd206bb6843..928f4a927de 100644
--- a/src/doc/en/reference/curves/index.rst
+++ b/src/doc/en/reference/curves/index.rst
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ The following relate to elliptic curves over local nonarchimedean fields.
    sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_local_data
    sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/kodaira_symbol
    sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_tate_curve
-   sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/padics
 
 Analytic properties over `\CC`.
 
diff --git a/src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/padics.py b/src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/padics.py
index fa19ee352c1..528acfb0da0 100644
--- a/src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/padics.py
+++ b/src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/padics.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# All these methods are imported in EllipticCurve_rational_field,
+# so there is no reason to add this module to the documentation.
 """
-Miscellaneous `p`-adic functions
-
-`p`-adic functions from ell_rational_field.py, moved here to reduce
-crowding in that file.
+Miscellaneous `p`-adic methods
 """
 
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