diff --git a/app-text/diction/metadata.xml b/app-text/diction/metadata.xml
index 7d709d04f8f4a..50f56e7e101ba 100644
--- a/app-text/diction/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/diction/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>jnrowe@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>James Rowe</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		GNU diction and style are free implementations of old standard unix
 		commands, that are not available on many modern systems, because they