vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/ca-pe.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-pe.yml — Prince Edward Island, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
+# plates/ca-pe.yml — Prince Edward Island, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
 #
 # THE SMALLEST CANADIAN PROVINCE AND, PER PLATE, THE MOST INVENTIVE: Prince
 # Edward Island has changed its base design roughly every decade since 1973, has
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #    stacked is recorded in `design`. A normaliser that drops stacked characters
 #    will silently corrupt every Prince Edward Island commercial plate.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): the gap in a Prince Edward Island serial is
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): the gap in a Prince Edward Island serial is
 # occupied by the PROVINCIAL CREST — a graphic separator, like Ontario's crown.
 # It is an emblem (see `design.emblem`), never part of the serial. Every `pattern`
 # spells the gap as the emitted space; every regex accepts it as optional.
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ instrument:
     - "https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/legislation/h-05-highway_traffic_act.pdf  # Highway Traffic Act consolidation, current to 29 May 2026, fetched and text-extracted 2026-08-02 — every statutory quotation in this file"
   licence: >-
     The Highway Traffic Act is an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT and its text is
-    uncopyrightable (PRD-PLATES §4). Every verbatim quotation of statute in this
+    uncopyrightable (the plates spec §4). Every verbatim quotation of statute in this
     file is of that text.
   fetch_note: >-
     princeedwardisland.ca serves the STATUTE PDF freely but sits behind a Radware
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     open licence covering plate ARTWORK was located. The statute TEXT is free as an
     edict of government and is quoted freely; nothing else is assumed.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The provincial escutcheon used as
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The provincial escutcheon used as
     the serial separator, the Province House facsimile on the 2013 base and the
     provincial coat of arms are rendered `placeholder`. The escutcheon and arms
     carry protection independent of copyright; unresearched, flagged.
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ common:
       and QB C12 forms after QZ 999. The 1997 base dropped county coding entirely.
       A parse API must not read a modern Prince Edward Island serial as geographic;
       it must read a 1993-1997 one that way. Both facts are the article's.
-    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Prince_Edward_Island  # TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: every serial arrangement in this file, the county coding and the base dates"
+    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Prince_Edward_Island  # TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: every serial arrangement in this file, the county coding and the base dates"
 
 classes_not_modelled:
   motorcycle:
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ classes_not_modelled:
       "$5 for a new license plate and $10 for a conservation or Canada's Food Island
       plate".
     why_not_modelled: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5 keeps individual specialty DESIGNS out of v1, and neither
+      the plates spec §2.5 keeps individual specialty DESIGNS out of v1, and neither
       programme's serial grammar is stated anywhere. The programmes are indexed here
       with the government's own words instead.
     sources:
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ series:
         THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MODELLING FACT: there is no forced re-plating, so
         the 2013 base below is not merely still on the road but still LAWFULLY
         CURRENT, and the two series genuinely overlap. That is the parallel-issuance
-        case PRD-PLATES §2.2 contemplates.
+        case the plates spec §2.2 contemplates.
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20231201163420/https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/province-unveils-new-license-plates  # Government of Prince Edward Island news release, 16 November 2022: the new design, the first-ever distinct electric-vehicle plate, the 6-digit numbering statement, the late-December-2022 availability, the fees and the no-forced-replacement rule — all quoted above. Read via the Internet Archive 2026-08-02; the live page is behind a bot defence."
       - "https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/legislation/h-05-highway_traffic_act.pdf  # HTA s. 20(1) (one plate), s. 20(2) (the content rule), s. 20(3) (Crown property), s. 21(1.1),(2) (rear, and front for a truck-tractor), s. 21(3),(3.1) (300 mm, no obscuring)"
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ series:
     variants:
       - name: "six-character arrangement on the same base"
         format: { pattern: "L9 99L", regex: '\A[A-Z]\d ?\d{2}[A-Z]\z' }
-        note: "the article records A1 23B alongside 12 3AB on the 2013 base, the second taking over when the first exhausted at 99 9ZZ. A variant rather than a series because the base, the period and everything else are identical (PRD-PLATES §2.3)."
+        note: "the article records A1 23B alongside 12 3AB on the 2013 base, the second taking over when the first exhausted at 99 9ZZ. A variant rather than a series because the base, the period and everything else are identical (the plates spec §2.3)."
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, plate_basis: convention }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ series:
       2022 release as the standard base and earns `period_evidence:
       agency-stated-date`. The ARRANGEMENT is the article's. Authored as its own
       series rather than a variant because BOTH the design and the format differ from
-      ca-pe-standard-2022, which is the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test twice over.
+      ca-pe-standard-2022, which is the plates spec §2.3 test twice over.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # COMMERCIAL — and the stacked-character case.
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ series:
       Edward Island "Service Vehicle" plate, and the choice is flagged: the article
       does not say who holds them, and no instrument names the class. If a verifier
       establishes that the class is commercial rather than governmental, the class
-      value moves and the id stays (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6). Entirely secondary.
+      value moves and the id stays (the quality spec I-5/I-6). Entirely secondary.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # TRAILER.
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ series:
     format:
       pattern: 'T\LR99T99'
       regex: '\ATLR\d{2}T\d{2}\z'
-      charset: { notes: "the literal TLR opens the serial and a further literal T sits between the two digit pairs — an unusual shape, and the article gives it as TLR12T34 with no note about stacking. NOTE THE PATTERN ESCAPE: the L in TLR is a literal L, so the pattern writes `\L` (PRD-PLATES §2.2, owner ruling 2026-08-02), single-quoted so YAML keeps the backslash" }
+      charset: { notes: "the literal TLR opens the serial and a further literal T sits between the two digit pairs — an unusual shape, and the article gives it as TLR12T34 with no note about stacking. NOTE THE PATTERN ESCAPE: the L in TLR is a literal L, so the pattern writes `\L` (the plates spec §2.2, owner ruling 2026-08-02), single-quoted so YAML keeps the backslash" }
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, plate_basis: convention }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ series:
     format:
       pattern: 'D\LR9999'
       regex: '\ADLR ?\d{4}\z'
-      charset: { notes: "the literal DLR is the class marker; four numerals follow. The L is escaped as `\L` in the pattern because L is the DSL's letter token (PRD-PLATES §2.2). The arrangement is the article's; that the plate must carry a distinguishing letter or device is STATUTORY — see `statutory_basis`." }
+      charset: { notes: "the literal DLR is the class marker; four numerals follow. The L is escaped as `\L` in the pattern because L is the DSL's letter token (the plates spec §2.2). The arrangement is the article's; that the plate must carry a distinguishing letter or device is STATUTORY — see `statutory_basis`." }
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, plate_basis: convention }
       background: { color: "#FFD100", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Prince_Edward_Island  # TAGGED SECONDARY: the volunteer-firefighter series from 1993 (A12), through 1A1 on the 1997 and 2007 bases, to 12 3FA on the 2013 base with blocks FD to FS"
     notes: >-
       `class: specialty` for the same reason as Nova Scotia's firefighter plate: the
-      vocabulary has no firefighter member and PRD-PLATES §2.3 forbids inventing
+      vocabulary has no firefighter member and the plates spec §2.3 forbids inventing
       one. Entirely secondary. Worth authoring because the embedded literal F makes
       the shape recognisable, and because the Canada east wave now carries a
       firefighter series in two provinces — Nova Scotia's with a statutory grammar

data/data/plates/ca-qc.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-qc.yml — Québec, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
+# plates/ca-qc.yml — Québec, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
 #
 # QUÉBEC IS THE BEST-LEGISLATED PLATE JURISDICTION IN CANADA AND ONE OF THE BEST
 # IN THIS DATASET. Where Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick leave the whole
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 #    n'en est pas déjà muni, lors du remplacement de la plaque. » Inserted by
 #    décret 968-2017, art. 1. A DAY, IN THE INSTRUMENT, FOR A DESIGN. See
 #    ca-qc-electric-2017 for the disagreement this creates with the secondary
-#    record, which is recorded and not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+#    record, which is recorded and not averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
 #
 # 4. QUÉBEC IS A ONE-PLATE PROVINCE, REAR, WITH ONE STATUTORY INVERSION.
 #    CSR art. 30 al. 1, verbatim: « Le propriétaire d'un véhicule routier doit
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 #    SAAQ page is quoted anywhere in this file; the agency's own plate-category
 #    page is cited as a known, unread source on the series it would corroborate.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): Québec prints a GAP between groups, not a
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): Québec prints a GAP between groups, not a
 # glyph — the plates read "H32 KGA" with white space. Every `pattern` spells the
 # emitted SPACE and every regex accepts it as optional. Règlement art. 139 al. 2
 # and art. 141 al. 2 are the one place a Québec instrument mentions a printed
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ instrument:
   licence: >-
     LégisQuébec is published by the Éditeur officiel du Québec / Les Publications
     du Québec. Statutes and regulations are EDICTS OF GOVERNMENT and their text is
-    uncopyrightable (PRD-PLATES §4); every verbatim quotation in this file is from
+    uncopyrightable (the plates spec §4); every verbatim quotation in this file is from
     that class of material. Translations into English are OURS and are marked.
 
 artwork_risk:
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     plate ARTWORK's licence was possible. The instrument TEXT is free as an edict
     of government and is quoted freely here. Nothing else is assumed.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies without exception. The fleur-de-lys
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies without exception. The fleur-de-lys
     and the « Je me souviens » wordmark are rendered `placeholder`. The fleur-de-
     lys as used on Québec plates is an element of the provincial flag and arms and
     carries protection independent of copyright; unresearched, flagged.
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ common:
       does not author a taxi series because no grammar and no primary date were
       obtained.
     source: "https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029  # Règlement arts. 97-114, 124, 136, 137, 139-141, 159 — every prefix above quoted from its own article"
-    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec  # TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: the retired-prefix list, the XA motorcycle-dealer form, and every digit-and-letter arrangement in this file"
+    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec  # TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: the retired-prefix list, the XA motorcycle-dealer form, and every digit-and-letter arrangement in this file"
   dimensions:
     note: >-
       NO QUÉBEC INSTRUMENT PRESCRIBES A PLATE SIZE. The Règlement and the CSR were
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ series:
       THE STRONGEST PERIOD CLAIM IN THE CANADA EAST WAVE: a DAY, in the
       instrument, for a design — « à compter du 26 octobre 2017 ». Hence
       `period_evidence: enabling-instrument`. THE DISAGREEMENT IS RECORDED AND NOT
-      RESOLVED, per PRD-PLATES §5.3: the en.wikipedia article says Québec issued a
+      RESOLVED, per the plates spec §5.3: the en.wikipedia article says Québec issued a
       green electric plate from 2011, six years earlier, with distinct serial forms
       (E00 VEA and so on), and cites a SAAQ page that no longer exists and could
       not be reached from this location anyway. Two readings fit the evidence — a
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ series:
           is consistent with the article and with the regulation, and `regex`
           encodes the no-prefix form. An M-prefixed Québec motorcycle plate
           (MAA 001-era) is lawful and out of this series' regex; that is the
-          correct-but-incomplete case PRD-PLATES §2.7 calls `strict`.
+          correct-but-incomplete case the plates spec §2.7 calls `strict`.
       progression: "10001A upward per the article's issuance record"
     design:
       plate: { w: 20, h: 10, unit: cm, plate_basis: secondary-wikipedia }
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ series:
         notes: >-
           The literal L is PRIMARY (art. 110); the six digits are the article's.
           NOTE THE PATTERN ESCAPE: `L` is the human-pattern DSL's own token for
-          "any letter", so a plate that PRINTS an L must write `\L` (PRD-PLATES
+          "any letter", so a plate that PRINTS an L must write `\L` (the plates spec
           §2.2, owner ruling 2026-08-02). This is the only series in the Canada
           east wave that needs it, and it needs it because Québec's heavy-truck
           prefix happens to collide with the DSL. Written in single quotes so YAML
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ series:
           le préfixe "V" suivi d'un trait d'union. » Art. 141 al. 2 says the same for
           a snowmobile of 450 kg or less. OUR TRANSLATION: a personalized plate on an
           all-terrain vehicle (or such a snowmobile) bears the prefix V FOLLOWED BY A
-          HYPHEN. That hyphen is an emitted separator under PRD-PLATES §2.6 and is
+          HYPHEN. That hyphen is an emitted separator under the plates spec §2.6 and is
           the only printed separator glyph any Québec instrument prescribes.
     eligibility:
       text: >-
@@ -1033,4 +1033,4 @@ series:
       it — and the file says so rather than implying otherwise. `matching:
       recall-only` is the deliberate consequence of the geo-block: with no readable
       SAAQ length rule, the only defensible regex is the statutory alphabet, and a
-      regex that wide must not be sold as a validity claim (PRD-PLATES §2.7).
+      regex that wide must not be sold as a validity claim (the plates spec §2.7).

data/data/plates/ca-sk.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-sk.yml — Saskatchewan (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+# plates/ca-sk.yml — Saskatchewan (the plates spec gate L3, Canada west).
 #
 # ── THE HONEST HEADLINE: THIS IS THE THINNEST FILE IN THE CANADA-WEST GROUP,
 #    AND THE REASON IS INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT SASKATCHEWAN.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 #
 # ── PERIOD DISCIPLINE, STATED UP FRONT ─────────────────────────────────────
 # Every serial-format claim below is graded `secondary-wikipedia` under the
-# PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia row's tagging condition. None of them is traced to a
+# the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia row's tagging condition. None of them is traced to a
 # Saskatchewan instrument or to SGI, because neither was reachable. A verifier
 # with working access to publications.saskatchewan.ca should treat every such
 # grade as an open item; they are enumerated in the dossier.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     is a CROWN INSURANCE CORPORATION with commercial operations, as British
     Columbia's is, which makes the "edict of government" argument weaker for
     SGI's own materials than for a statute.
-  emblem_rule: "PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to the wheat device reported at the centre of the standard base."
+  emblem_rule: "The plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies to the wheat device reported at the centre of the standard base."
   sources:
     - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # the province's own publication of the plate regime"
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ common:
   separator_note: >-
     The Saskatchewan serial is universally rendered as two groups of three with
     a printed gap (`123 ABC`). No Saskatchewan source states a separator glyph.
-    Under PRD-PLATES § 2.8 the position is spelled with the sanctioned
+    Under the plates spec § 2.8 the position is spelled with the sanctioned
     separator-only class, and `pattern` shows the canonical printed space.
   dimensions_note: >-
     NEGATIVE FINDING. No dimension is sourced. The reported 12 x 6 in /
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ series:
       beginning "early 2009" with the SAME arrangement, which on inspection is
       an ALPHABET change and not a format change (see common.alphabet_note) —
       so it is recorded as a charset fact inside this series rather than minted
-      as a second series, on the PRD-PLATES § 2.3 test (own series iff format OR
+      as a second series, on the plates spec § 2.3 test (own series iff format OR
       design OR period differs; a charset widening inside one arrangement is
       none of the three).
       THE STRONGEST THING IN THIS RECORD IS NOT THE FORMAT. It is the display
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ series:
       its replacement cycle, arrived at eleven years earlier by a different
       route.
     sources:
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Saskatchewan  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): 123 ABC reported from May 1998, the 2009 alphabet widening, the green-on-white wheat design, 'Land of Living Skies', aluminium; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Saskatchewan  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): 123 ABC reported from May 1998, the 2009 alphabet widening, the green-on-white wheat design, 'Land of Living Skies', aluminium; accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # the single-plate regime this series is issued under"
 
   - id: ca-sk-standard-1977

data/data/plates/ca-yt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-yt.yml — Yukon (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada territories).
+# plates/ca-yt.yml — Yukon (the plates spec gate L3, Canada territories).
 #
 # ── THE HEADLINE: YUKON LEGISLATES ITS SERIAL GRAMMARS, ALL OF THEM, IN ONE
 #    SECTION, AND IT IS THE BEST FORMAT SOURCE IN THE CANADA-WEST GROUP.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     every Yukon government web host refused connection this pass. Recorded as
     UNRESEARCHED rather than presumed either way.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to the prospector graphic, which
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies to the prospector graphic, which
     secondary sources report as continuously present on Yukon plates since 1952
     and which is the territory's identifying device. It is NOT a statutory
     drawing — C.O. 1978/120 contains no design annex — so the German
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ common:
     standardised in 1955, are recorded here once and asserted nowhere.
   charset_disagreement: >-
     RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED. Two secondary readings of the Yukon private-series
-    alphabet disagree: the world dossier (plates-research-us-world.md § 2.1)
+    alphabet disagree: the world dossier (§ 2.1)
     reports "excludes I, O, Q, U"; the per-territory encyclopedia article
     reports "letters I, Q, U, Y excluded" — the two agree on I, Q and U and
     disagree on O and Y. C.O. 1978/120 s. 10(g) states only "three letters",
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ common:
     1978/120 s. 10(h) and the NWT's reg. 8(2)(a) both create as their own
     statutory type. `ca-yt-ham` is filed under `specialty` as the nearest
     available value; adding an `amateur-radio` class is a _meta PR with a
-    definition, per PRD-PLATES § 2.3, and should not be done ad hoc here.
+    definition, per the plates spec § 2.3, and should not be done ad hoc here.
 
 series:
 
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ series:
       private plate (10(g)) or a "Y" government plate (10(i)).
     sources:
       - "https://laws.yukon.ca/cms/images/LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/1978/1978-0120/1978-0120.pdf  # s. 10(g) grammar + amendment note O.I.C. 1990/112"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Yukon  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): ABC12 reported 1990-present, corroborating the instrument year; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Yukon  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): ABC12 reported 1990-present, corroborating the instrument year; accessed 2026-08-02"
 
   - id: ca-yt-private-1982
     class: standard
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ series:
       Cars, Trucks, Buses, and other vehicles not provided for" and 10(a.1),
       added by O.I.C. 2007/121, covers "Dealer - Motor cycle, trailer,
       snowmobile and off-road vehicle"; both prescribe the identical
-      D+3-digits / DLR+3-digits alternative, so PRD-PLATES § 2.3's test (own
+      D+3-digits / DLR+3-digits alternative, so the plates spec § 2.3's test (own
       series iff format OR design OR period differs) puts them in one record
       with both vehicle scopes in `categories`. 10(a) points at Motor Vehicles
       Act s. 54 for the use rules. Collides on the leading D with

data/data/plates/ch.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ch.yml — Switzerland (PRD-PLATES gate L1). DRAFT for verification.
+# plates/ch.yml — Switzerland (the plates spec gate L1). DRAFT for verification.
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, layout and class claim in this file comes from the
 # consolidated federal law on fedlex.admin.ch, fetched 2026-08-02:
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #    vehicle on the road before the plates must go back ("Lässt der Halter innert
 #    14 Tagen kein anderes Fahrzeug in den Verkehr setzen, so hat er auch die
 #    Kontrollschilder unverzüglich zurückzugeben"). Hence `binding: owner`
-#    at the top of this file — the field PRD-PLATES §2.2 introduced for exactly
+#    at the top of this file — the field the plates spec §2.2 introduced for exactly
 #    this jurisdiction. A vehicle-keyed consumer must not join on a Swiss plate.
 #
 # 2. THE CANTON TABLE IS IN THE ORDINANCE, IT IS CLOSED, AND IT IS 26 ROWS.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 #    Gemeinwesen, zu dem sie gehören, gebraucht werden." Abs. 3: "Die Zeichen nach
 #    den Absätzen 1 und 2 können nicht lizenziert und nicht übertragen werden."
 #    There is therefore no clean-licence route to the exact artwork for ANY of the
-#    27 arms (federal + 26 cantonal) — PRD-PLATES §6's "affirmatively clean per
+#    27 arms (federal + 26 cantonal) — the plates spec §6's "affirmatively clean per
 #    emblem" exit does not exist in Switzerland. Recorded honestly, and NOT read
 #    as legal advice: WSchG Art. 8 Abs. 4 lit. a does permit use "als Abbildung in
 #    Wörterbüchern, Nachschlagewerken, wissenschaftlichen und ähnlichen Werken",
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 #    canton letters and the number on every single-line plate. A mid-height point
 #    is U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT; U+00B7 is in _meta/separators.yml's FORGIVING set but
 #    NOT in its EMITTED set, so writing it would be a lint failure under
-#    PRD-PLATES §2.6, and rightly: the dataset commits to writing only "-" and
+#    the plates spec §2.6, and rightly: the dataset commits to writing only "-" and
 #    " ". Two consequences, both benign:
 #      (a) `pattern` spells the gap as a SPACE — which is also literally correct
 #          for the two-line Hochformat and motorcycle plates, where Art. 85 Abs. 2
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 #          a KNOWN emitted-set gap rather than leaving it undocumented).
 #
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# REGEX POLICY (PRD-PLATES §2.7 tiers), applied consistently below
+# REGEX POLICY (the plates spec §2.7 tiers), applied consistently below
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #   regex            the lint-round-trippable printed form: [A-Z]{2} for the
 #                    canton, `[- ]?` for the point, and 1-6 digits. The SIX-DIGIT
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ binding_note: >-
   Art. 87 Abs. 1 VZV: "Die einmal zugeteilte Schildnummer bleibt für den Halter
   reserviert." The plate is allocated to the KEEPER and follows the keeper, not
   the vehicle; Art. 87 Abs. 5 keeps ownership of the physical plate with the
-  authority. This is the jurisdiction PRD-PLATES §2.4 names when it introduces
+  authority. This is the jurisdiction the plates spec §2.4 names when it introduces
   `binding:`; every series in this file inherits `owner` unless it says otherwise.
 instrument:
   citation: "Verordnung vom 27. Oktober 1976 über die Zulassung von Personen und Fahrzeugen zum Strassenverkehr (Verkehrszulassungsverordnung, VZV), SR 741.51, Stand am 1. Januar 2026"
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ common:
       NO LICENSABLE FONT IS MANDATED — the same finding the EU dossier records for
       the UK, Germany and Spain, reached here by a different route: Switzerland
       does not even publish a Schriftmuster in the ordinance, it delegates. Per
-      PRD-PLATES §6 the render layer therefore uses the schematic fallback and
+      the plates spec §6 the render layer therefore uses the schematic fallback and
       records the substitution; no third-party "Swiss plate font" TTF is touched.
     gap: "the ASTRA Schriftbild determination is a RECORDED GAP — unpinned, and the reason no character heights or stroke widths appear in this file"
     source: "https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de  # Art. 85 Abs. 5"
@@ -320,21 +320,21 @@ common:
       WSchG Art. 8 Abs. 1 reserves the Swiss and cantonal arms to the polity they
       belong to; Abs. 3: "Die Zeichen nach den Absätzen 1 und 2 können nicht
       lizenziert und nicht übertragen werden." There is no licensable route to the
-      artwork, so PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder is mandatory rather than merely
+      artwork, so the plates spec §3's placeholder is mandatory rather than merely
       prudent. Abs. 4 lit. a's reference-work exception is noted, not relied on.
     source: "https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2015/613/20250701/de  # WSchG Art. 8 Abs. 1, 3, 4 lit. a"
   not_modelled:
     - "EXPORT PLATES DO NOT EXIST. Art. 82 Abs. 1-2 VZV is exhaustive and has no export series; a vehicle permanently leaving Switzerland is simply deregistered. The nearest regime is the PROVISIONAL immatriculation of VVV Art. 16-19 (vehicles whose Standort is in Switzerland only for a limited time), which is modelled as ch-provisional. Sourced negative, not an omission."
     - "HISTORIC / VETERAN PLATES DO NOT EXIST as a plate class. Art. 82's colour list has no historic entry and no VZV or VTS provision creates one; Swiss veteran vehicles carry ordinary white plates. (The administrative 'Veteranenfahrzeug' status is an entry in the Fahrzeugausweis; its federal basis was NOT located in the VZV or VTS text fetched here and is a recorded gap.) This is the only L1 core class Switzerland genuinely lacks."
     - "TAXI PLATES DO NOT EXIST. Professional passenger transport is authorised on the driving licence (VZV Art. 25), not on the plate."
-    - "CANTONAL NUMBER AUCTIONS AND CHOSEN NUMBERS are cantonal law, outside the federal instruments read here, and are not modelled (PRD-PLATES §2.5 scope discipline)."
+    - "CANTONAL NUMBER AUCTIONS AND CHOSEN NUMBERS are cantonal law, outside the federal instruments read here, and are not modelled (the plates spec §2.5 scope discipline)."
 
 region_encoding_tables:
   cantons:
     reference: "plates/_decode/ch-cantons.yml"
     inline_codes: [AG, AI, AR, BE, BL, BS, FR, GE, GL, GR, JU, LU, NE, NW, OW, SG, SH, SO, SZ, TG, TI, UR, VD, VS, ZG, ZH]
     note: >-
-      26 rows, closed, primary, and small enough for PRD-PLATES §2.4's "inline
+      26 rows, closed, primary, and small enough for the plates spec §2.4's "inline
       table" branch — the codes are inlined here for regex derivation and the full
       table with German/French/Italian names and the Jura period row lives in the
       decode file. Two decode traps a parse API must carry: (1) the two-letter
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ series:
       rear_differs_note: >-
         TRUE, and structurally so: the Swiss front plate is 300x80 mm with no arms
         at all, the rear plate is 300x160 or 500x110 mm and carries two coats of
-        arms. This is the UK-style asymmetry PRD-PLATES §2.2 introduced
+        arms. This is the UK-style asymmetry the plates spec §2.2 introduced
         `rear_differs` for, arriving in a stronger form than in the UK — there the
         difference is colour, here it is size, layout and emblem content.
       display: "front and rear (VTS Art. 96)"
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ series:
       one reason and one only: the DESIGN differs by trailer type — an
       Arbeitsanhänger carries the armless 300x80 front-plate form while a
       Transportanhänger carries the armed rear-plate form — which is exactly the
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 test. The STRING, by contrast, is indistinguishable from a
+      the plates spec §2.3 test. The STRING, by contrast, is indistinguishable from a
       car's: Art. 84 Abs. 2 puts "Motorwagen, Motoreinachser und Anhänger" in ONE
       number space, so no consumer can tell a Swiss trailer registration from a car
       registration by parsing it. Recorded here because a parse API that scores
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ series:
       not imply an M plate; and VFBF Art. 29 required Grenzwachtkorps and customs
       investigation vehicles to leave the military registers by 31 December 2023,
       which is an ENDED sub-population inside a live series and exactly the kind of
-      row-level period discipline PRD-PLATES §2.4 warns about.
+      row-level period discipline the plates spec §2.4 warns about.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR — CD, CC, AT on a dark green or dark blue field.
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ series:
         - { name: sign, value: "CD", note: "on a dark green or dark blue field (Art. 82 Abs. 2 lit. d)" }
         - { name: canton, note: "the two canton letters, in BLACK — Art. 84 Abs. 4" }
         - { name: mission_serial, note: "first number group: 'Ordnungsnummer innerhalb der Mission, des Postens, der Delegation oder der Organisation'; the LOWEST numbers are reserved for the head of mission and the deputies (Art. 84 Abs. 4)" }
-        - { name: state_code, note: "second number group: 'bezeichnet den einzelnen Staat oder die Organisation' — the country/organisation code. The code TABLE is an FDFA allocation and is NOT published in the VZV: recorded gap, deliberately not guessed (PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)." }
+        - { name: state_code, note: "second number group: 'bezeichnet den einzelnen Staat oder die Organisation' — the country/organisation code. The code TABLE is an FDFA allocation and is NOT published in the VZV: recorded gap, deliberately not guessed (the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)." }
       separator_note: >-
         Art. 84 Abs. 4 prescribes "die Zahlen und der Punkt" and Art. 85 Abs. 4
         "die durch einen Punkt getrennten zwei Zahlengruppen" — the group

data/data/plates/cn.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/cn.yml — People's Republic of China (mainland), PRD-PLATES gate L3.
+# plates/cn.yml — People's Republic of China (mainland), the plates spec gate L3.
 #
 # ============================================================================
 # 1. THE SOURCE SITUATION, STATED FIRST BECAUSE IT SHAPES EVERY CLAIM HERE
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #     what was DELIBERATELY not asserted.
 #
 # ============================================================================
-# 2. THE HAN LINE — where the dataset's serial alphabet stops (PRD-PLATES §2.6)
+# 2. THE HAN LINE — where the dataset's serial alphabet stops (the plates spec §2.6)
 # ============================================================================
 # GA 36-2007 § 3.2 defines the thing a plate carries, verbatim:
 #   "机动车登记编号 registration number of motor vehicle
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 #    Translation ours; the Chinese is the sourced text.)
 #
 # So a Chinese registration number has FOUR elements, two of them Han. The
-# dataset's serial alphabet is A-Z and 0-9 and PRD-PLATES § 2.6 says a
+# dataset's serial alphabet is A-Z and 0-9 and the plates spec § 2.6 says a
 # jurisdiction that prints a glyph inside the serial "is a schema amendment,
 # not a data entry". This file does NOT smuggle Han characters into any
 # `format.pattern`, `format.regex`, `format.regex_strict` or
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 # character and looks it up in cn-provinces.yml; (2) splits a trailing Han
 # character if present and looks it up in `common.classification_han` below;
 # (3) matches what is left — "A12345" — against `format.regex`. The two decode
-# files make steps 1 and 2 mechanical. The schema amendment PRD-PLATES § 2.6
+# files make steps 1 and 2 mechanical. The schema amendment the plates spec § 2.6
 # anticipates (a `never_separator` / non-Latin-element ruling in
 # _meta/separators.yml) is REQUESTED in the dossier; until it lands, this is the
 # honest encoding and it is stated here once rather than guessed per series.
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 # in the same regex, is not an inconsistency — it is the sourced rule.
 #
 # ============================================================================
-# 4. PERIOD POLICY (PRD-PLATES §2.4, the instrument-date rule)
+# 4. PERIOD POLICY (the plates spec §2.4, the instrument-date rule)
 # ============================================================================
 # The system in force is the "92-pattern" (92式) created by GA 36-1992, whose
 # existence and designation year are evidenced by GA 36-2007's own 前言 ("本标准
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ series:
         printed_example: "京A·12345"
         regex_informational: '\A[京津冀晋蒙辽吉黑沪苏浙皖闽赣鲁豫鄂湘粤桂琼渝川贵云藏陕甘青宁新][A-Z][·\- ]?[A-Z0-9]{5}\z'
         regex_informational_note: >-
-          NOT part of the PRD-PLATES § 2.6 contract, NOT lint-validated, and NOT
+          NOT part of the plates spec § 2.6 contract, NOT lint-validated, and NOT
           a substitute for format.regex — provided because a consumer holding a
           whole Chinese plate string needs one expression to split it. The Han
           class is the 31 characters of cn-provinces.yml in Table 2's order.
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ series:
     period: { start: 1992 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
     standard_edition: "GA 36-2007 表 1 row 2"
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the readable text fixes the trailer plate's
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): the readable text fixes the trailer plate's
     # DESIGN and its classification character but never states which of the two
     # serial widths 表 3 defines applies to it — that lives in Annex C's
     # figures, which the government republication reproduces as headings only.
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ series:
       2016 is the enabling instrument — the Ministry's announcement creating the
       pilot — with the whole rollout ladder recorded in period.rollout rather
       than averaged into one date, which is exactly the Mercosur pattern
-      PRD-PLATES § 2.2 anticipates.
+      the plates spec § 2.2 anticipates.
 
   - id: cn-nev-large-2016
     class: electric
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ series:
           (试), and an over-dimension/over-mass special vehicle (超). The blue
           tint above is for movement WITHIN one administrative jurisdiction.
           A tint-and-character variant of one format and period, so a sub-entry
-          per PRD-PLATES § 2.3.
+          per the plates spec § 2.3.
         sources:
           - "https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/content_25106.html  # GA 36-2007 表 1 row 16 (all four uses and their tints); § 6.4 c)-d) (the two GB/T 3181-1995 colour designations); accessed 2026-08-02"
     validity:

data/data/plates/cy.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/cy.yml — Republic of Cyprus (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/cy.yml — Republic of Cyprus (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # ============================================================================
 # WHAT THIS FILE COVERS, AND WHAT IT DOES NOT — READ FIRST
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ not_representable:
         following an old-form Greek flag; no instrument located.
       * «ΔΟΚΙΜΗ» dealer legend — Δ U+0394. See dealer_plates below, where the
         larger finding is that this legend is not in the instrument at all.
-    Per PRD-PLATES §2.6 a jurisdiction printing a glyph the serial alphabet
+    Per the plates spec §2.6 a jurisdiction printing a glyph the serial alphabet
     lacks is a SCHEMA AMENDMENT, not a data entry. Transliterating ΚΔ to "KD"
     would fabricate a string no Cypriot plate shows. Reported, not authored.
 
@@ -409,9 +409,9 @@ series:
           squarish 8), so the secondary claim is substantively defensible, but
           the citable fact is "the letterforms reproduced in the Annex to
           Κ.Δ.Π. 71/2013", not a typeface name. This is the same posture
-          PRD-PLATES §6 records for the UK, Germany and Spain: statutory
+          the plates spec §6 records for the UK, Germany and Spain: statutory
           drawing, not licensable font.
-        license: "statutory drawing — PRD-PLATES §6: derive glyphs from the specimens, never from a third-party TTF"
+        license: "statutory drawing — the plates spec §6: derive glyphs from the specimens, never from a third-party TTF"
       mounting: { note: "Μέρος ΙΙ παρ. 3: vertical, tilt not exceeding 5 degrees (30/15 degree tolerances in specified cases), lower edge at least 0.30 m above the ground" }
       rear_differs: false
       rear_differs_note: >-
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ series:
         match here says "this string has a shape Cyprus has issued and the
         vehicle MAY be eligible for a black plate" — it is emphatically not a
         claim that the plate is black. This is the nl-export case in
-        PRD-PLATES §2.7, and it is why no regex_strict exists.
+        the plates spec §2.7, and it is why no regex_strict exists.
     design:
       background: { color: "#000000", finish: non-retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#FFFFFF"
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ series:
       overlaps cy-standard-1990's start for the ordinary reason that a
       Registrar's change of practice is not a dated event. PRE-1956 CYPRUS IS
       NOT MODELLED — colonial-era registration is L4 historical depth under
-      PRD-PLATES §7 and no source was consulted.
+      the plates spec §7 and no source was consulted.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # DIPLOMATIC — green in law 1973-2013, then silently dropped.

data/data/plates/cz.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/cz.yml — Czechia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/cz.yml — Czechia (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim below is read from the
 # OFFICIAL Sbírka zákonů PDFs on aplikace.mv.gov.cz — the Ministry of the
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 #    bicycle carrier "je mezi třetím a čtvrtým místem určeným pro znak umístěn
 #    speciální znak". An ASTERISK occupies the sticker-well position on that one
 #    plate type. It is not in the serial alphabet and not an emitted separator
-#    (PRD-PLATES §2.6), so it appears NOWHERE in a pattern or a regex here; it
+#    (the plates spec §2.6), so it appears NOWHERE in a pattern or a regex here; it
 #    is carried as prose on the cz-standard-2004 variant and is flagged as a
 #    `never_separator` candidate for plates/_meta/separators.yml. Note it sits
 #    BETWEEN groups, in the gap, so it is a separator-position glyph and not an
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 #     amended). See plates/sk.yml.
 # Neither file silently duplicates the other and neither drops the era. The
 # alternative — a single shared `cs-` jurisdiction file — was rejected because
-# PRD-PLATES §2.1 keys files on ISO 3166-1 and CS is a withdrawn code with no
+# the plates spec §2.1 keys files on ISO 3166-1 and CS is a withdrawn code with no
 # current authority to cite; recording the era twice, with each successor's own
 # terminating instrument, keeps every claim attached to a live primary.
 #
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ common:
       registrační značky formou prolisování", with the paper one-trip plate the
       only printed exception ("formou vytištění").
     licence: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §6 applies unchanged: derive glyphs from the published
+      the plates spec §6 applies unchanged: derive glyphs from the published
       geometry, never from a third-party TTF. No Czech public-domain-of-statutes
       provision was researched in this pass (the German §5(1) UrhG argument was
       not tested against Czech law) — recorded gap, and one more reason to
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ series:
           plus any digit. `regex_statutory` is the outer bound of § 24 odst. 2 —
           five to eight characters printed as three, the gap, and two to five —
           and it is genuinely wider than what is issued, which is exactly the
-          us-fl situation PRD-PLATES §2.7 describes. The statute's further
+          us-fl situation the plates spec §2.7 describes. The statute's further
           requirement of "nejméně 1 písmeno a nejméně 1 číslice" cannot be
           expressed without a lookahead spanning the separator position, which
           §2.8 forbids, so it is recorded here in words and not in the regex.
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ series:
         note: >-
           Motorcycles carry the SAME mark on a 200 x 160 two-line plate with one
           sticker well instead of two (§ 29 odst. 1 písm. d), odst. 5). A
-          size-only variant, hence a sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3; recorded
+          size-only variant, hence a sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3; recorded
           with a class so class-keyed queries reach it.
         sources:
           - "https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=z&id=27609  # § 29 odst. 1 písm. d), odst. 5. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ series:
           určeným pro znak umístěn speciální znak."; § 27 odst. 5: "Pro speciální
           znaky se použije znak *." The serial is the towing vehicle's own mark;
           an ASTERISK replaces the sticker gap. Because * is neither in the
-          serial alphabet nor an emitted separator (PRD-PLATES §2.6), the
+          serial alphabet nor an emitted separator (the plates spec §2.6), the
           `pattern` above prints the ordinary space and the asterisk is recorded
           HERE, in prose. It sits BETWEEN character groups, so it is a
           separator-position glyph and a candidate for the `never_separator`
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ series:
           PREFIX GOES WITH WHICH CLASS IS A RECORDED GAP; the OVAL supplementary
           plate (common.supplementary_plates) does gloss its own three letters
           (CD = Corps diplomatique, CC = Corps consulaire, HC = Consuls
-          honoraires) and that is a different plate. PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic
+          honoraires) and that is a different plate. The plates spec puts diplomatic
           decode tables at L4 and none is authored here.
       separator_note: "the § 27 odst. 2 sticker gap after position 3, as on every single-row Czech plate"
     design:
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       THE YELLOW PLATE. Czechia colour-codes agricultural and works machinery
       rather than serialising it separately — the mark is an ordinary one and
-      only the ground is different, which under PRD-PLATES §2.3 would make it a
+      only the ground is different, which under the plates spec §2.3 would make it a
       sub-entry were the CLASS not different; it is recorded as its own series
       because the class is the point. A SCOPE CHANGE, dated: under vyhláška
       243/2001 Sb. the yellow plate covered all "zvláštní motorová vozidla" plus