diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index 2dcf85f767..3dd7bce515 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES[doc] = "When a recipe inherits the features_check class,
 ANY_OF_MACHINE_FEATURES[doc] = "When a recipe inherits the features_check class, at least one item in this variable must be included in MACHINE_FEATURES."
 ASSUME_PROVIDED[doc] = "List of packages (recipes actually) that are assumed to be implicitly available. BitBake does not build these packages."
 ASSUME_SHLIBS[doc] = "List of shlib:package[_version] mappings. Useful for lib packages in ASSUME_PROVIDED, for which automatic shlib dependency tracking does not work."
-AUTHOR[doc] = "Email address used to contact the original author(s) in order to send patches and forward bugs."
 AUTO_SYSLINUXMENU[doc] = "Enables creating an automatic menu for the syslinux bootloader."
 AUTOREV[doc] = "When SRCREV is set to the value of this variable, it specifies to use the latest source revision in the repository."