Every Good Seats guide is built from a research record: a list of the facts on the page and the source for each one. This page explains which sources are used and in what order.
Sources, in order of preference
- The subject itself. The venue's, team's, league's, festival's or production's own website and published policies.
- Public bodies. Government agencies, transit authorities, regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission, and public research such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Industry records. Trade publications and databases of record, such as league record books, the Internet Broadway Database and box-office reporting.
- Reference works. Established encyclopedias, used to find and cross-check primary sources.
- Fan and seating resources. Used only for orientation, such as confirming how sections are numbered, and never copied.
Sources on every page
Each guide lists its main sources at the end of the page, so readers can check a fact for themselves. Statistics link to the document they came from, and any caution the original source attaches to a figure is kept.
Entity identification
Pages identify their subject with links to its Wikipedia article and its Google Knowledge Graph entry in the page's structured data, so search engines and other software know exactly which venue, team or performer a page is about.
Photos
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are used only when released under a Creative Commons license that allows commercial reuse with credit, or when they are in the public domain. The photographer and license for each one are listed on the photo credits page.
What is never used
Guides do not copy text from other ticket or seating sites, do not rely on anonymous forum posts for facts, and do not publish ticket prices.