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> Putting author names but no date at the top seems to be some sort of standard template or convention that every single paper author or institution everywhere

> Putting author names but no date at the top seems to be some sort of standard template or convention that every single paper author or institution everywhere uses since forever, since I never see dates at tops of papers. The year usually appears in the bottom left of the first page, and in the header or footer of subsequent pages. The first linked PDF [1] says only "14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation" (without the year), but does have the year on an initial cover page. The second [2] says "HotOS ’23, June 22–24, 2023, Providence, RI, USA". The third [3] says "SOSP ’23, October 23–26, 2023, Koblenz, Germany" in the bottom-left of the first page. However, this information may be missing from an author produced files/preprints, as it may be inserted along with page numbers when the conference proceedings or journal issue gets created. This seems to be the case for the fourth linked PDF [4]. [1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-yang.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-yang.pdf [2]: https://jasony.me/publication/hotos23-qdlp.pdf https://jasony.me/publication/hotos23-qdlp.pdf [3]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3600006.3613147 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3600006.3613147 [4]: https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf

Aardwolf 3y ago
Links like https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf is the one we can actually read though, relying on a third party to put this critical piece of information seems suboptimal, rather than make the paper self-contained. I noticed that arxiv at least puts the dates in vertical on the left side of the PDFs there, but it seems that too is something arxiv puts there, not the paper itself. If it's about subtleties like "what is exact publication date", at least put some date, at least let us know it's from the 2020's or the 2000's, it's not guaranteed to be easy to tell. It should be possible to put a year during which the text is being typed there.

Aardwolf 3y ago

Links like https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf is the one we can actually read though, relying on a third party to put this critical piece of information seems suboptimal, rather than make the paper self-contained. I noticed that arxiv at least puts the dates in vertical on the left side of the PDFs there, but it seems that too is something arxiv puts there, not the paper itself. If it's about subtleties like "what is exact publication date", at least put some date, at least let us know it's from the 2020's or the 2000's, it's not guaranteed to be easy to tell. It should be possible to put a year during which the text is being typed there.