User talk:Rl1rl1

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Hi! Thanks for providing references!

When linking to a technical article, it's better to use a DOI if you have one. This is because the DOI links are guaranteed to be remain stable, where the links into specific websites are not. For example, for the link in excimer lasers, it's better to use http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lsm.1900040212 rather than the link you provided, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112211020/ABSTRACT.

Also, you might want to consider switching to the more modern 'cite' template. You can look at placement (EDA) to see how this works.

Finally, we need to think as editors what the really important references are. I think the Rubin reference in routing is really a basic one - it's really the first one on using a cost instead of forbidding a route. The others are good work, but not nearly so fundamental. We can't possibly include all the useful and important papers - only those that are really 'must read' on the topic. (Unfortunately, the Rubin reference gives an error message if you are not logged in as an ACM member. A DOI reference would be better, but the ACM appears not to have them for articles so old.  It might be better to log in from a non-ACM access computer, find the article, and copy the link to the abstract.  This should be available to all...)

Thanks again. I've been trying to add/clean-up EDA references for a while now, and it's quite a task...

LouScheffer 20:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)