Talk:Wet etching

Redundancy

Wet etching is explained in three articles: here, industrial etching, and etching (microfabrication). If they are all describing the same thing I think the descriptions in the industrial etching article and the microfabriction article be merged into the wet etching article. Otherwise if they are different, the wet etching article should become a disambig page pointing to the other two articles. Wizard191 (talk) 02:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I vote for the Disambig page. Industrial etching and etching (microfabrication) are different enough to deserve their own pages. Etching (microfabrication) is a particular subset of processes covered under the general microfabrication. One issue, however, is that etching (microfabrication) covers both wet and dry (plasma) etching. This article is titled wet etching so it could be percieved to be a subset set of etching.

Note that this article was once slightly longer, was then redirected to chemical etching which in turn redirects to industrial etching. Industrial etching provides mention and a link to etching (microfabrication). The last few edits changed this article from a redirect back to a stub, but did not restore any of the old text. --Dspark76 (talk) 14:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'm going to change this into a disambig article then. Thanks for the input. Wizard191 (talk) 18:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this status of this article going to be resolved?

Both articles mentioned are laughably bad. Industrial etching should be the one eliminated, but I have no reasoning for that other than it just makes more sense to me. I'd like to improve this article by including more standard etch recipes. Take the article out of limbo, and I will do this. I do not want to improve this article and then have it deleted from above. If somebody else would like to do the boring work of improving this article, I should note that in research clean rooms: http://microlab.berkeley.edu/labmanual/chap1/JMEMSEtchRates2%282003%29.pdf "Etch rates for micromachining processing, Part II" is currently the bible for wet chemical etches. It also includes information on Dry Etching. Dry Etching is different enough from wet etching that it could be a separate article, save for the fact that it would be useful to list etch rates of different materials by both dry and wet etches on the same page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinsdale22 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]