diff --git a/Framework/Algorithms/src/MaskBinsIf.cpp b/Framework/Algorithms/src/MaskBinsIf.cpp
index 898895c2913c2a28d43b74c093ebe6b06c140b2c..46f49a021701d771245cd7c98bfe8170d6b8b748 100644
--- a/Framework/Algorithms/src/MaskBinsIf.cpp
+++ b/Framework/Algorithms/src/MaskBinsIf.cpp
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ void MaskBinsIf::exec() {
       e = it->countStandardDeviation();
       dx = hasDx ? it->centerError() : 0.;
       if (parser.Eval() != 0.) {
-        outputWorkspace->flagMasked(index, bin);
+        outputWorkspace->maskBin(index, bin);
       }
     }
     progress->report();
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/api/src/Exports/MatrixWorkspace.cpp b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/api/src/Exports/MatrixWorkspace.cpp
index 97946fea7b7caed0ddf8dfa2aa32d11ede12d96d..4eb12c636316b1ae156e3c18193974b1cd493928 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/api/src/Exports/MatrixWorkspace.cpp
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/api/src/Exports/MatrixWorkspace.cpp
@@ -187,11 +187,10 @@ Mantid::API::Run &getSampleDetailsDeprecated(MatrixWorkspace &self) {
 }
 
 /**
- * @brief maskedBinsIndices This is an anonymous wrapper around the homonym
- * method of MatrixWorkspace. This takes int as argument and returns a vector of
- * ints to python, unlike the C++ size_t, since python does not speak unsigned
+ * This is an anonymous wrapper around the homonym method of MatrixWorkspace.
+ * This takes int as argument since python does not speak unsigned.
  * @param self
- * @param i : workspace index
+ * @param i : workspace index [int]
  * @return bin indices of masked bins at the workspace index given
  */
 std::vector<size_t> maskedBinsIndices(MatrixWorkspace &self, const int i) {
diff --git a/docs/source/algorithms/MaskBinsIf-v1.rst b/docs/source/algorithms/MaskBinsIf-v1.rst
index 7157b5a3a676bdfcccb8684450f49cdbd75dd219..c7abb846c31e6532b4e7ca8fa29b63d577e4e30c 100644
--- a/docs/source/algorithms/MaskBinsIf-v1.rst
+++ b/docs/source/algorithms/MaskBinsIf-v1.rst
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ The variables entering the criteria are reserved as follows:
 - dx : the error on the bin center
 - s : the value of spectrum axis, which has to be SpectraAxis or NumericAxis.
 
-Note that it preserves the data in the masked bins, just flags them as masked.
-
 Usage
 -----