diff --git a/spacy/cli/configure.py b/spacy/cli/configure.py
index 5f31ca0b4..c7637cf04 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/configure.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/configure.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ def _check_pipeline_names(nlp: Language, nlp2: Language) -> Dict[str, str]:
     fail_msg = """
         Tried automatically renaming {name} to {new_name}, but still
         had a collision, so bailing out. Please make your pipe names
-        more unique.
+        unique.
         """
 
     # map of components to be renamed
diff --git a/spacy/cli/merge.py b/spacy/cli/merge.py
index 6fd9e8153..528237dae 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/merge.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/merge.py
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ def _inner_merge(
 ) -> Language:
     """Actually do the merge.
 
-    nlp: Base pipeline to add components to.
-    nlp2: Pipeline to add components from.
+    nlp (Language): Base pipeline to add components to.
+    nlp2 (Language): Pipeline to add components from.
     replace_listeners (bool): Whether to replace listeners. Usually only true
       if there's one listener.
     returns: assembled pipeline.