diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
index 7ab54beff6..369af10b3c 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
@@ -5085,17 +5085,6 @@ Do you want to commit? (no = start a shell) [y/n]</screen>
 		maintained by those groups.</para>
 	    </important>
 
-	    <warning>
-	      <para>Blanket approval does not apply to ports that are
-		maintained by teams like <email
-		  role="nolink">autotools@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
-		  role="nolink">x11@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
-		  role="nolink">gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>, or <email
-		  role="nolink">kde@FreeBSD.org</email>.  These teams
-		use external repositories and can have work that would
-		conflict with changes that would normally fall under
-		blanket approval.</para>
-	    </warning>
 	  </answer>
 	</qandaentry>
 
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
index 02fc4d21e4..84632b9268 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
@@ -4061,15 +4061,7 @@ PATCHFILES=	patch1:test</programlisting>
       <para>Some types of fixes have <quote>blanket approval</quote>
 	from the &a.portmgr;, allowing any committer to fix those
 	categories of problems on any port.  These fixes do not need
-	approval from the maintainer.  Blanket approval does not apply
-	to ports that are maintained by teams like <email
-	  role="nolink">autotools@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
-	  role="nolink">x11@FreeBSD.org</email>, <email
-	  role="nolink">gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>, or <email
-	  role="nolink">kde@FreeBSD.org</email>.  These teams use
-	external repositories and can have work that would conflict
-	with changes that would normally fall under blanket
-	approval.</para>
+	approval from the maintainer.</para>
 
       <para>Blanket approval for most ports applies to fixes like
 	infrastructure changes, or trivial and