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wsdm-writing-style

Use when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review, ethical-considerations craft, limitation sentences that protect borderline papers, and compression into the appendix-inclusive page cap.

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# WSDM Writing Style

Revise a manuscript into the register WSDM's series page announces for itself:
"practical yet principled approaches" to search and mining on the Web and the
Social Web. That phrase is an editorial instruction. A WSDM paper earns its
slot by being simultaneously deployable-sounding and analytically honest - pure
benchmark exercises read as under-motivated, pure war stories read as
unscientific. The stylistic moves below operationalize that balance.

## Open with the behavioral problem, not the model family

WSDM work starts from something users, platforms, or web data actually do:
clicks are position-biased, sessions are short, graphs are power-law sparse,
feedback loops entrench popularity, adversaries game ranking. The strongest