Behind every Reserved Seat guide sits a research record, which lists each fact on the page alongside the source that supports it. This page sets out the types of sources used and how they are ranked.
Ranking of sources
- The subject's own material. Official websites and published policies from the venue, team, league, festival or production.
- Government and public research. Public agencies, transit authorities, regulators like the Federal Trade Commission, and research programs such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Industry sources. Trade press and authoritative databases, for example league record books, the Internet Broadway Database and box-office reports.
- Reference works. Respected encyclopedias, consulted to locate primary sources and to cross-check them.
- Fan and seating sites. Consulted only to get oriented, for instance to confirm how a venue numbers its sections, and never reproduced.
Source lists on each guide
The main sources for a guide appear at the bottom of the page so readers can verify any fact independently. Each statistic links to the document that published it, and any qualification the source places on a number is carried over.
Identifying entities
The structured data on each page links its subject to the matching Wikipedia article and Google Knowledge Graph entry, which tells search engines and other software precisely which venue, team or performer the page covers.
Images
All photos are drawn from Wikimedia Commons and appear only if they are in the public domain or carry a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use with attribution. Each image's photographer and license are recorded on the photo credits page.
Sources that are off limits
Reserved Seat guides never reproduce text from other ticketing or seating websites, never treat anonymous forum posts as a basis for facts, and never publish ticket prices.