diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 25b3b34..069ded3 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,8 +1,2 @@
 # Ref: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
 * text=auto eol=lf
-
-# GitHub linguist ignores markdown files by default, but files here
-# are mostly markdown, so we explicitly make the pages detectable
-# to show up in repository code metrics
-articles/*.md linguist-detectable=true
-articles/*.md linguist-documentation=false