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BUG: name argument in Series.reset_index behaves differently from doc when inplace==True #44575

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Reproducible Example

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> s = pd.Series(range(4), name='oldser')
>>> s.reset_index(name='newser', drop=True)
0    0
1    1
2    2
3    3
Name: oldser, dtype: int64
>>> s.reset_index(name='newser', drop=True, inplace=True)
>>> s
0    0
1    1
2    2
3    3
Name: newser, dtype: int64

Issue Description

The documentation of Series.reset_index mentions that name argument is ignored when drop is True. This only applies when inplace is False.

Expected Behavior

When inplace is True, should either match behavior when inplace is False. Or should at least update documentation.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 945c9ed
python : 3.8.12.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.11.0-40-generic
Version : #44~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 26 18:07:44 UTC 2021
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.3.4
numpy : 1.21.4
pytz : 2021.3
dateutil : 2.8.2
pip : 21.3.1
setuptools : 58.5.3
Cython : 0.29.24
pytest : 6.2.5
hypothesis : 6.24.3
sphinx : 4.3.0
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.6.4
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.0.3
IPython : 7.29.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.10.0
bottleneck : None
fsspec : 2021.11.0
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 5.0.0
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
numba : 0.53.1

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