Here is an article that discusses common shortcuts versus hard work in restoring old photos. http://goo.gl/eyRMg
Not sure I'd be all that thrilled if you were insulting my work as you do in the opening of the article with another photographer. The better approach, I believe, would be to simply illustrate, as you do in the bottom part of the article, what your steps and processes are and explain why those are, in your view, preferable.