Talk:Widest path problem

Widest path problem has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: June 15, 2016. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Widest path problem appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the widest path problem forms the algorithmic basis of the Schulze method used by Wikimedia to decide the winners of multiway elections?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/May.

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"widest path" or "maximum capacity path"

As far as I know, the "width" of an arc is usually called its "capacity". I recommend that this article should be moved to "maximum capacity path problem". Markus Schulze 16:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My guess prior to looking at the actual numbers was that "bottleneck shortest path" would be a more frequently used name than the one you propose. But Google scholar finds 1000 hits for "widest path", compared to 86 for "bottleneck shortest path" and 195 for "maximum capacity path", so (if the hit count can be believed) the current name is actually a good choice. I did add your alternative to the lede, though. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: I am accepting this article for review :-D. Please give me at least two weeks; I have been busy lately, and I tend to be pretty thorough ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 14:42, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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