Talk:Bridge loan

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[edit] Reverting deletion / redirect

A couple months ago, a well-meaning wikipedian simply deleted the entire contents of this 2+ year old article, and redirected it to caveat loan, a new article he created for the purpose. I am reverting that action.

Admittedly, this article is not well written. It presents an incomplete picture of bridge loans, limited mostly to the field of real estate finance. The tone is informal and it does not cite its sources. Somebody ought to improve and expand it. If the editor in question wanted to do so he or she should have edited it accordingly. Deleting the entire thing in favor of his own new content, though not mean spirited, is inappropriate pretty close to vandalism.

Now that there are two articles for the same thing, the useful part of the new caveat loan article (if any) can be merged into this article. That means picking and choosing the best parts. This article, weak as it is, is a more suitable starting point than "caveat loan" because that article is poorly written, even more limited in scope, and far less encyclopedic (comparing, for example, bridge loan originators to loan sharks). The resulting article should be left here because, as I said, "bridge loan" is the standard term. Wikidemo 01:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger of caveat loan

It has been proposed that caveat loan be merged into this article.

Iagree it should be (I added the tag but am not the one who formally made this proposal). "caveat loan" is not a real term, both articles cover the same thing. This article is weak, but the other is weaker.Wikidemo 06:41, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Merger of Bridge Loan

I don't see why this needs to be discussed. It's just a letter case difference. Someone with time should just go ahead and do it. -- 13:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

  • (:agree with merger Haggismaker 02:13, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
    • completed merge. Haggismaker 02:27, 13 August 2007 (UTC)