Wikipedia talk:Digital Object Identifier

Wiki doi is a covert advertising instrument

For a discussion of what is in my view a gross violation of our core principle Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING, please see HERE. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 11:47, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Interesting read now archived at Template talk:Citation/Archive 4#Wiki doi is a covert advertising instrument!. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. Good comments by User:Anthonyhcole, who confirmed the issue, and User:Gun Powder Ma, who raised the issue. It's a pity we still don't have the bot User:Rjwilmsi proposed that adds free-access URLs to for any DOI citation where such content available for free. Annoyingly, {{cite journal|doi=10.2174/1570159X14666151109103147}} (. doi:10.2174/1570159X14666151109103147. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)) produces a doi.org link that redirects here - a commercial site that does a really shitty job of indicating that the full article is available for free: Even if, after going there, I click on "Rights and Permissions" and fill out a form, the fact that the content is free is still hidden from me! How misleading! By contrast, following PMID 26549651({{pmid|26549651}}) I see "FREE", in red, alerts me to the status, and even better, at PMC 4825944 ({{pmc|4825944}}) we find the whole article and the license. We shouldn't be directing people the way we do as if this drawback doesn't exist. I added a citation somewhere to the above-cited article, and when I went back to look at the article again, using the citation I'd added, was angered when I found the citation I'd added was directing me at a sleazy, misleading paywall. I edited accordingly. --Elvey^(t•c) 01:31, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

I don't think we should use DOI when it links to a paywalled version of an open access page. I added this to this project page. Mikael Häggström (talk) 05:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

wikilinking "doi" in the citation is annoying

We end up with blue next to blue. A wiklink next to an external one. And "doi" getting wikilinked a bazillion times. TCO (talk) 09:46, 15 June 2011 (UTC)