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This note analyzes two methods for calculating missing values of an incomplete reciprocal fuzzy preference relation. The first method by Herrera-Viedma appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics [vol. 37, no. 1 (2007) 176-189], while the second one by Fedrizzi and Giove appeared later in the European Journal of Operational Research [vol. 183 (2007) 303-313]. The underlying concept driving both methods is the additive consistency property. We show that both methods, although different, are very similar. Both methods derive the same estimated values for the independent-missing-comparison case, while they differ in the dependent-missing-comparison case. However, it is shown that a modification of the first method coincides with the second one. Regarding the total reconstruction of an incomplete preference relation, it is true that the second method performs …