Talk:Slope stability

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Right now, as a Geotechnical Engineer, I'm giving this article a very low rating. There seems to be quite a few of these, and I'm looking at them. I should get around to rewriting soon. --Zeizmic 14:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I have rewritten the article with sources. The remediation part is unreferenced and best left to a new slope stabilization article. --Zeizmic 13:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

There seem to be many articles scattered as stubs related to larger ideas in the geotech categories. Should this be merged? For instance, merge the slope stability method stubs into this article? --Zuejay 03:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Ya, I was thinking about doing the same thing, at least for the slope stability methods. I'll do it sometime if you don't. Basar 03:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like we'll need to explain ordinary method of slices as well - probably have to make clear the difference between single-body and slice methods...Ackk!--Zuejay 04:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename?

Should this article be renamed Slope stability analysis? There isn't much about earthwork to improve slope stability, and adding that would be a distraction from the analysis material. Argyriou (talk) 15:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Renaming might be dangerous. The more I learn about Wikipedia, the more sensitive it appears as to how you search for a topic. If there is a seperate article on slope stability improvement techniques, we should definitely be linking there. But if it is a stub, maybe it should be incorporated here. --Zuejay 19:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

There's no slope stabilization article, even though User:Zeizmic suggested one a while ago. If a page move is done using the "move" function, there would be a redirect from Slope stability to Slope stability analysis; which could be changed to a disambiguation page directing people to either the analysis or the stabilization page. Argyriou (talk) 19:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I think any of the options would be fine. The mass wasting article covers the qualitative geology, and our one or two articles on slope stability would cover analysis and remediation. I suggest we do two articles with the titles slope stability and slope remediation. Slope stability feels implicitly about analysis to me. The two articles could be offshoots of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, respectively. Basar 23:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Just FYI there is a lot of additional information about slope remediation in the article's history from before Zeizmic's rewrite. It might be useful. Basar 00:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overall Organization

Perhaps we should establish a bit of an outline for how this article should go. I definitely like the new TOC. So, it's the intro para; maybe Historical slope stability cases, ie landslides; Methods of analysis (2 major types: single-body & slices; then one or so types of each - for instance, Bishop's is a method of slices type analysis); Stabilization techniques with ref to a main article (if there is one, see Zeizmic's statements above); possibly a See also, like mass wasting; and finally References. What d'ya think? --Zuejay 19:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)