diff --git a/ietf/patches/fill_in_references.py b/ietf/patches/fill_in_references.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b9d6930dc..000000000
--- a/ietf/patches/fill_in_references.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-print """
-This file was a run-once script to back-fill reference information for
-documents which were already in the database.  Once it had been run,
-there's no particular further use for it, so in order to avoid handling
-40 extra Megabytes in for instance grep and lint (pyflakes) operations,
-the content has been removed.  It is still available in earlier repository
-revisions, though.
-"""
diff --git a/ietf/patches/fix_replaced_states.py b/ietf/patches/fix_replaced_states.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bc1764b7..000000000
--- a/ietf/patches/fix_replaced_states.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-from ietf import settings
-from django.core import management
-management.setup_environ(settings)
-
-from ietf.doc.models import RelatedDocument,State,DocEvent
-from ietf.person.models import Person
-
-
-relevant_relations = RelatedDocument.objects.filter(relationship__slug='replaces',
-                                                    target__document__type__slug='draft',
-                                                    target__document__states__type='draft',
-                                                    target__document__states__slug__in=['active','expired'])
-
-affected_docs = set([x.target.document for x in relevant_relations])
-
-replaced_state = State.objects.get(type='draft',slug='repl')
-
-system_user = Person.objects.get(name="(System)")
-
-for d in affected_docs:
-    d.set_state(replaced_state)
-    DocEvent.objects.create(type="added_comment",
-                            doc=d,
-                            by=system_user,
-                            desc='Draft state administratively corrected to Replaced',
-                           )
-