It seems arXiv does support name changes, just not in citations and references[1]
This seems… fine? To modify citations would be a strange alteration of history and an intrusion on authorship.
If someone quotes this comment and cites it as “bigyikes” and later Dang changes my name, should he also edit the comments that quote me? I don’t think so, but maybe I’m in a minority here.
The link you shared seems great, thank you! I was talking to a friend just yesterday who regularly publishes to arXiv, and my understanding was that changing author names on papers where they weren’t the primary author wasn’t possible. But from the link you’ve shared it seems they’ve made the steps needed to address that. I think this means I might be able to deliver some good news!
This seems… fine? To modify citations would be a strange alteration of history and an intrusion on authorship.
If someone quotes this comment and cites it as “bigyikes” and later Dang changes my name, should he also edit the comments that quote me? I don’t think so, but maybe I’m in a minority here.
[1]: https://blog.arxiv.org/2021/03/11/update-name-change-policy/