diff --git a/scripts/check-comparative-prose.sh b/scripts/check-comparative-prose.sh
index 3914e98e0..0219e5162 100755
--- a/scripts/check-comparative-prose.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-comparative-prose.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
 #
 # Scope: the same files as scripts/check-public-names.sh — the tracked files
 # under wai/ with the extensions .md .rs .toml .py .sh .mjs .js .json .html
-# .css .ttl .h .c .txt and wai/'s .gitignore files, except the settled OER/2
-# documents and corpus, and except wai/CHANGELOG.md: its history is a record,
-# and only names are redacted from it. Files given as arguments replace that
+# .css .ttl .h .c .txt and wai/'s .gitignore files, except wai/CHANGELOG.md:
+# its history is a record, and only names are redacted from it. Files given as arguments replace that
 # list (the self-test, scripts/test-public-text-checks.sh, uses this).
 #
 # Opt-out, for a functional identifier or a quotation only (an environment
@@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
 else
   while IFS= read -r f; do
     case "$f" in
-      wai/extensions/oer-receipts.md|wai/wai-rs/src/oer.rs|wai/oer-conformance/*) continue ;;
       wai/CHANGELOG.md) continue ;;
     esac
     files+=("$f")
diff --git a/scripts/check-public-names.sh b/scripts/check-public-names.sh
index 2ae91631f..dcb52b8a6 100755
--- a/scripts/check-public-names.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-public-names.sh
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 # .sh .mjs .js .json .html .css .ttl .h .c .txt, and wai/'s .gitignore files;
 # or, when files are given as arguments, those files (the self-test,
 # scripts/test-public-text-checks.sh, uses this), each a path relative to the
-# directory the script is run from, or absolute. Excluded:
-#   - the settled OER/2 documents and corpus (wai/extensions/oer-receipts.md,
-#     wai/wai-rs/src/oer.rs, wai/oer-conformance/), which no change may edit.
+# directory the script is run from, or absolute. No file is excluded: the
+# OER/2 documents and corpus once were, as settled text, until a minor version
+# edited them; they pass, and a change to them is checked like any other.
 #
 # Opt-out, for a functional identifier only (a model-hub id a tool defaults
 # to, a repository URL, an OS API name, a security advisory id, a capability
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
   done
 else
   while IFS= read -r f; do
-    case "$f" in
-      wai/extensions/oer-receipts.md|wai/wai-rs/src/oer.rs|wai/oer-conformance/*) continue ;;
-    esac
     files+=("$f")
   done < <(git ls-files 'wai/*.md' 'wai/*.rs' 'wai/*.toml' 'wai/*.py' 'wai/*.sh' 'wai/*.mjs' 'wai/*.js' \
                         'wai/*.json' 'wai/*.html' 'wai/*.css' 'wai/*.ttl' 'wai/*.h' 'wai/*.c' 'wai/*.txt' \