diff --git a/dev-python/emoji/metadata.xml b/dev-python/emoji/metadata.xml
index 5d5c5a18006e9..e71c9030cad2c 100644
--- a/dev-python/emoji/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/emoji/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
 		<email>alexxy@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Alexey Shvetsov</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Python</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">emoji</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">carpedm20/emoji</remote-id>