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Correct entry for Eprint 2022/007 #229

Closed b-wagn closed 7 months ago

b-wagn commented 9 months ago

This PR corrects the entry for eprint article 2022/007. Before, the entry was referencing the first version of this article, which had a different title and author list. To keep references to this version, I created a new entry and explicitly referenced the version number in the old entry.

michelabdalla commented 9 months ago

@b-wagn Thank you for this pull request. While it's possible to merge this PR, I'm wondering if keeping both entries is the correct approach in this case. Since we currently only keep one ePrint entry per version of a paper, It seems to me that it would be best to simply replace the old entry with three authors with the new one. In this case, those wanting to reference the old version with the three authors would need to create a separate entry in a local bib file. What's your take?

Your PR also highlights one problem that we currently have, which is how to maintain crptobib and ePrint entries in sync. Unfortunately, we still don't have a reasonable solution for it.

b-wagn commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the response.

For this PR: I understand, and it would be ok for me to remove the old entry and only keep the new one. However, for this case it would not be too bad to keep both entries, as they have different author sets and therefore also different names. So there would not be any conflict. So, should I remove the old entry or not?

For the general problem, here are two ideas (I haven't thought too long about them): Idea 1: what if we remove eprint entries from cryptobib entirely? The advantage would be that we eliminate the inconsistencies. Also, I assume it would not be a big problem because there is a bibtex entry on eprint anyways. Of course, there are probably also arguments against this. Idea 2: what if we have a Python script that iterates over all eprint entries in cryptobib and checks if they are still consistent?

b-wagn commented 9 months ago

@michelabdalla Given my comment above, what is your opinion on this? Should I remove the old entry or not?