diff --git a/lib/plugins/authmysql/plugin.info.txt b/lib/plugins/authmysql/plugin.info.txt
index 1658d7aac231e094012f5718fbdfe285f6df344c..5f8493df114dae174e1edda4b4724c08b4d9059e 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/authmysql/plugin.info.txt
+++ b/lib/plugins/authmysql/plugin.info.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ base   authmysql
 author Andreas Gohr
 email  andi@splitbrain.org
 date   2015-07-13
-name   MYSQL Auth Plugin
-desc   Provides user authentication against a MySQL database
+name   [DEPRECATED] MYSQL Auth Plugin
+desc   â–¶This plugin will be removed from DokuWiki in a future release! Use authpdo instead.â—€ Provides user authentication against a MySQL database
 url    http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:authmysql
diff --git a/lib/plugins/authpgsql/plugin.info.txt b/lib/plugins/authpgsql/plugin.info.txt
index 1d53ca0b1f4e9e18908e8c13602f257a2b3403da..033c291795dd67f929becff8cfa73fcb7a47f0f0 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/authpgsql/plugin.info.txt
+++ b/lib/plugins/authpgsql/plugin.info.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ base   authpgsql
 author Andreas Gohr
 email  andi@splitbrain.org
 date   2015-07-13
-name   PostgreSQL Auth Plugin
-desc   Provides user authentication against a PostgreSQL database
+name   [DEPRECATED] PostgreSQL Auth Plugin
+desc   â–¶This plugin will be removed from DokuWiki in a future release! Use authpdo instead.â—€ Provides user authentication against a PostgreSQL database
 url    http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:authpgsql