Recently I encountered a new phenomenon when I tried to submit a paper to arXiv. The paper was an erratum to another, already published, paper and will be published separately. I got a message from arXiv saying that I need to join the erratum with the original file. I was a little surprised receiving a reply from, obviously, a human being. Although I thought the request was a bit silly, I did what was requested, submitted the joint paper (the original union the errata), and forgot about it. But today I got a call from another mathematician. She tried to submit a paper with a title "... II". The paper "... I" was already in the arXiv and submitted to a (very good) journal. Both papers solve similar but different problems. One of these problems is at least 40 years old. Her submission was denied: she got a request from the arXiv to submit a union of that new paper and the old paper instead. This is quite silly. Is there now a special person in the arXiv who is making these decisions? It looks like there has been a change in how arXiv is managed. I understand that this is not a research question, and I make it a community Wiki. I post it here because several frequent MO users are affiliated with arXiv.
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New arXiv procedures?
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