Talk:Diminished value

Merge proposal

It seems that accelerated depreciation (automotive) and diminished value cover the same ground. Since articles are generally about concepts or things and not terms, having two articles is a form of content forkery. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]} 13:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)  Done --- DO NOT MERGE--- Diminished Value is a legal concept in the US, that's what courts call it here. Accelerated depreciation is a Canadian Term. Splitting the article would confuse people. Antoine Rached, Diminished Value post original creator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rl10452 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Right. It's the same thing, just called something different in different countries. That doesn't warrant separate articles and I don't think our reader would get confused, particularly if we make it clear in the article. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]} 13:13, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I agree with the merger. There's no reason to have separate country-by-country articles.Cantaloupe2 (talk) 22:59, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Clean up

I viewed the CBC video and it says that "diminished value" and acc. dep are regional variations of the same meaning. Per WP:CFORK and the aforementioned proposal, I combined the two articles. I chose this one over the other one as the one to retain based on the longer presence. I deleted substantially overlapping contents. I also removed phrasing with suggestive usage because I believe it advocates for the use of diminished value appraisal service; as originally written by an appraisal agent. This article is in need of expansion on the effect of damage repair on value with reliable references to support the claim. Cantaloupe2 (talk) 18:13, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

I removed the spam link to Rocco's Diminished Value Appraisal site. It appears that the original text has been completely rewritten to follow along the author's views and not as an unbiased factoid. I am also an auto appraiser who specializes in Diminished Value and this Page has been riddled with spam for years and should be watched consistently. Please remove any links to Diminished Value appraisers and/or Law Firms that provide Diminished Value services as in the majority of cases, these 'citations' are actually just spammy backlinks disguised as creditable citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xinnek (talk • contribs) 04:51, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Link to www.kielichlawfirm.com

It looks like someone is trying to add an unnecessary link to www.kielichlawfirm.com to this article . This fits a pattern of recent edits I've seen, all adding unnecessary citations pointing to this same domain name: Divorce Bedford, TX Diminished Value. In the case of this article, the reference is given as a citation for a sentence beginning with "Most states", but the content on the actual webpage linked is specific to Texas and the lawyer the website represents appears to only be connected to the State Bar of Texas. The anonymous editor reverted my removal of the link; I'll leave it to the other editors of this article to determine if the link is appropriate. --Hebisddave (talk) 13:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)