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Overall the article is rather short, and should be expanded.
The problems could be described in more detail, and offer solutions to how we can deal with the problems.

Satxra (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2015 (UTC)satxra[reply]

How is it quantified/measured? SmartSE (talk) 21:39, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I thought the writing was a little wordy for an encyclopedia. For example, "The shrink–swell capacity of clay refers to the extent to which certain clay minerals will expand when wet and retract when dry" could be shortened by removing "to the extent to which", which is a relatively meaningless phrase. As mentioned above, the page seriously needs to be expanded (which I'm sure you're aware of). I would rename the 'Problems' section to something more descriptive. Good sources though! Thepunalsorises (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! After reading through the article again, I was struck by the extra words. I think that, even though what you have is short, it needs to be cut down further. New material really needs to be added. I noticed that the article is still considered a stub, which it probably shouldn't be after your first draft. Thepunalsorises (talk) 18:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review 2

Images or diagrams of soil subject to shrink-swell problems might be a good addition to the page as a visual representation to someone unfamiliar with this soil property. What units is this property measured in? Rt318 (talk) 10:27, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Rt318[reply]

Peer Review II

I actually enjoyed reading this article as the wording was simple enough to be reader friendly but had enough technical jargon to make sense, and I like that you provided links to other articles for deeper research. Shrink-swell capacity is a bit of an odd name for an encyclopedia article, its possible this whole article could've been put under the main article for clay or soil. Also why is shrink well capacity so important? Has it ever caused some type of disaster? - eo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eodhiambo (talk • contribs) 18:15, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]