As a society we have advanced past looking in paper journals to find the references of papers. Yet we still include these numbers in our papers. They distract from easily seeing the year and they do not help anyone locate the paper. Typically a reference is searched directly by the title. Observe how citations are much easier to look at:
To move forward easily we can replace existing Latex bibliography style files with ones that omit this unnecessary information automatically! The files will be stored on this GitHub repo: https://github.com/ieee8023/nopagenum