diff --git a/scripts/audit_annotations.yml b/scripts/audit_annotations.yml
index 8266c6d..ba87584 100644
--- a/scripts/audit_annotations.yml
+++ b/scripts/audit_annotations.yml
@@ -28,17 +28,6 @@ datasets:
       A migration candidate — it is read from lecture-python.myst main by raw
       URL, and the lecture documents every transformation and rebuilds the
       post-2000Q4 continuation from FRED
-  SCF_plus_mini.csv:
-    description: SCF+ wealth/income survey extract
-    provenance: constructed-committed
-    note: built by generating_mini.md (executable MyST) in high_dim_data from SCF_plus.dta
-  SCF_plus_mini_no_weights.csv:
-    description: SCF+ extract, no survey weights
-    provenance: constructed-committed
-    note: >
-      variant of the SCF_plus_mini pipeline. Was pinned to feature branch
-      update_scf_noweights (critical flag in the 2026-07-15 audit); reads
-      high_dim_data main since lecture-python-intro#793
   acs_data_summary.csv:
     description: ACS occupation summary
     provenance: constructed-lost
@@ -62,14 +51,6 @@ datasets:
     description: Hyperinflation tables, Sargent "Ends of Four Big Inflations"
     provenance: author-assembled
     note: hand-transcribed by authors
-  cities_brazil.csv:
-    description: Brazilian city populations
-    provenance: author-assembled
-    note: manual download from worldpopulationreview.com, documented in high_dim_data README
-  cities_us.csv:
-    description: US city populations
-    provenance: author-assembled
-    note: manual download from worldpopulationreview.com, documented in high_dim_data README
   dataBHS.mat:
     description: US consumption/income series, MATLAB replication bundle
     provenance: verbatim
@@ -80,14 +61,6 @@ datasets:
   fig_3.xlsx:
     description: French Revolution fiscal data
     provenance: author-assembled
-  forbes-billionaires.csv:
-    description: Forbes billionaires list
-    provenance: constructed-committed
-    note: webscrape_forbes.ipynb in high_dim_data (Forbes API)
-  forbes-global2000.csv:
-    description: Forbes Global 2000 firm size
-    provenance: constructed-committed
-    note: webscrape_forbes.ipynb in high_dim_data (Forbes API)
   fp.dta:
     description: Treisman (2016) Russia billionaires replication data
     provenance: verbatim
diff --git a/scripts/render_audit.py b/scripts/render_audit.py
index ee0c677..3116d32 100644
--- a/scripts/render_audit.py
+++ b/scripts/render_audit.py
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
     "own-repo": ("p-own", "own-repo URL", "fetches a file committed in its own repo via a GitHub raw URL"),
     "local-path": ("p-local", "local path", "pd.read_csv('…') relative path — no URL; breaks in Colab/download"),
     "sibling": ("p-sib", "sibling repo URL", "fetches another lecture repo's committed copy by URL"),
-    "external": ("p-ext", "external data repo", "QuantEcon/high_dim_data via raw and media (LFS) hosts"),
+    # `external` is defined by what it EXCLUDES, and classify_url reaches it by
+    # two routes: a non-QuantEcon org (build_audit.py:180-181) and a QuantEcon
+    # repo that is none of this repo, the consuming repo, a legacy name or a
+    # scanned sibling (:190-191). Describe the exclusion, not whichever repo
+    # happens to be using it — this label has now been too narrow twice.
+    "external": ("p-ext", "external data repo", "reads a data file by URL from a GitHub repo outside the audited lecture set — any org"),
     "external-web": ("p-ext", "external web host", "fetches a data file from a non-GitHub host by URL"),
     "legacy": ("p-legacy", "legacy-repo URL", "fetches from the retired pre-MyST lecture-python repo"),
     "embedded": ("p-embed", "%%file embedded", "written by the lecture itself, then read back"),
@@ -428,7 +433,9 @@ def what_changed(audit: dict) -> str:
 (lecture-python-programming#576, lecture-python.myst#968) removed every live reference.</p></div>
 <div class="finding ok"><b>Branch-pinned refs: 1 → 0.</b>
 <p>The critical flag on <code>SCF_plus_mini_no_weights.csv</code> — pinned to a feature branch of
-high_dim_data — was fixed by lecture-python-intro#793; it now reads <code>main</code>.</p></div>
+the external repo it then lived in — was fixed by lecture-python-intro#793. That file has since been
+folded into this repo (data-lectures#62) and every consumer repointed here, so the pin is doubly
+retired.</p></div>
 <div class="finding"><b>lecture-wasm joined the audit — and changed one fact.</b>
 <p>The WASM mirror carries its own copies of intro's data files (all unread — its lectures fetch
 intro's copies by URL), and its <code>short_path</code> fetches intro's committed