diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5f159f5a..62388307 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ Other patches (grep for "patch" in ChangeLog) by:
   Jilles Tjoelker
   Lauri Nurmi
   Mikko Rauhala
-  Sven Wegener
   loafier
   Nicolas Collignon
   Daniel Koning
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 66385128..9f21e9b2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ v0.8.11 200x-xx-xx  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	- Don't get confused and keep saying "Netsplit over" on every join for
 	  user that only rejoined some channels.
 	- Fix crash with one line high terminal 
-	- Fix crash in /EXEC, patch by Sven Wegener (Bug 439)
+	- Fix crash in /EXEC (Bug 439)
 	- Fix format string in printtext_dest call from Perl, patch by loafier.
 	- Fix memory leaks in expandos_deinit by Nicolas Collignon (Bug 419)
 	- Detect off_t size using AC_CHECK_SIZEOF because it works also when