diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 161047197ff6f..1bdd2d5e8aa33 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.Index.ravel PR01,RT03" \
         -i "pandas.Index.slice_indexer PR07,RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Index.str PR01,SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.Index.take PR01,PR07" \
         -i "pandas.Index.view GL08" \
         -i "pandas.Int16Dtype SA01" \
         -i "pandas.Int32Dtype SA01" \
diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
index 2bf0aca31449e..c7b009bc02dbe 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
@@ -1120,9 +1120,21 @@ def astype(self, dtype, copy: bool = True):
         axis : int, optional
             The axis over which to select values, always 0.
         allow_fill : bool, default True
+            How to handle negative values in `indices`.
+
+            * False: negative values in `indices` indicate positional indices
+              from the right (the default). This is similar to
+              :func:`numpy.take`.
+
+            * True: negative values in `indices` indicate
+              missing values. These values are set to `fill_value`. Any other
+              other negative values raise a ``ValueError``.
+
         fill_value : scalar, default None
             If allow_fill=True and fill_value is not None, indices specified by
             -1 are regarded as NA. If Index doesn't hold NA, raise ValueError.
+        **kwargs
+            Required for compatibility with numpy.
 
         Returns
         -------