Talk:Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

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The link of "matrix effect" sends me to "Matrix Digital Rain," an unrelated entry. Please correct it; thanks.

[edit] external links:

Either we do have companies dealing in this business in the external link section or we don't. But indiscriminately deleting some and leaving randomly selected companies and papers is not ok. Obviously there are other groups like Winefordner's with the same academic reputation out there: Sabsabi, Noll, Bäuerle, Niemax, Panne, Mauchien etc.. and in most cases there are the associated spin-offs where links are justified.

In general, I agree, and would lean toward removing the commercial links. Your argument would be more convincing, however, if you didn't appear to be a spammer yourself. When an IP user with little contrib history adds an ext. link to a commercial site, I always just assume spam and take it out. I also took some others that didn't have obvious relevance beyond maybe some commerical involvement; sorry I didn't check the rest more carefully. Dicklyon 17:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

point taken

admittedly I am new to the wiki-stuff and was a bit put off by the randomness of the validity of the external links. OTOH: IBM has a Wikipedia entry as well, so why not a short link to LIBS-companies? Anyway, I'll try to find more uni-departments and related institutions for the link-list. Also, I gave the double pulse part a general makeover and removed the irrelevant part about delay generators;