diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 5f18e821..de933cfc 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -117,3 +117,6 @@
 
 - Petter Strandmark
   Perimeter calculation in regionprops.
+
+- Olivier Debeir
+  Rank filters (8- and 16-bits) using sliding window.
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diff --git a/skimage/rank/bilateral_rank.py b/skimage/rank/bilateral_rank.py
index 97db8f99..24ccbcd0 100644
--- a/skimage/rank/bilateral_rank.py
+++ b/skimage/rank/bilateral_rank.py
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@
 
 note: 8 bit images are casted into 16 bit image here
 
-:author: Olivier Debeir, 2012
-:license: modified BSD
 """
 
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import warnings
 from skimage import img_as_ubyte
diff --git a/skimage/rank/local/__init__.py b/skimage/rank/local/__init__.py
index 10b6fb15..e69de29b 100644
--- a/skimage/rank/local/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/rank/local/__init__.py
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__author__ = 'olivier'
diff --git a/skimage/rank/percentile_rank.py b/skimage/rank/percentile_rank.py
index 6ceb503d..2ed6f011 100644
--- a/skimage/rank/percentile_rank.py
+++ b/skimage/rank/percentile_rank.py
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ for 16 bit input images, the number of histogram bins is determined from the max
 
 result image is 8 or 16 bit with respect to the input image
 
-:author: Olivier Debeir, 2012
-:license: modified BSD
 """
 
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
diff --git a/skimage/rank/rank.py b/skimage/rank/rank.py
index d07c9037..012c046f 100644
--- a/skimage/rank/rank.py
+++ b/skimage/rank/rank.py
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ for 16 bit input images, the number of histogram bins is determined from the max
 
 result image is 8 or 16 bit with respect to the input image
 
-:author: Olivier Debeir, 2012
-:license: modified BSD
 """
 
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'