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<blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 1891210" data-attributes="member: 59">Sure, that's what Google's for, but I've got to agree with Crothian — if you want informed conversation, you can't be so oblique about your sources.&nbsp; Based on what you've said so far, I could go Google &quot;Ryan Dancey&quot; and see what I could find, but the &quot;various state of gaming reports&quot; — by who?&nbsp; From where?&nbsp; We'll end up reading different material, which means that we'll probably have different data backing up our points.&nbsp; There has to be a baseline for all this.&nbsp; It would be like me (a former, not failed, graduate student) writing an essay on Dickens's Bleak House and then giving barely any context clues as to which novel it was, but mentioning that it was set in London and written sometime after Barnaby Rudge.&nbsp; Then, when people asked me which novel I meant, I would tell them that that was what Barnes &amp; Noble or their local library was for.&nbsp; It's not good practice if you're looking to establish discourse (oh no!&nbsp; I said &quot;discourse&quot; instead of &quot;conversation&quot; — stupid academic plague!). Nick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Fezziwig, post: 1891210, member: 59"] Sure, that's what Google's for, but I've got to agree with Crothian — if you want informed conversation, you can't be so oblique about your sources. Based on what you've said so far, I could go Google "Ryan Dancey" and see what I could find, but the "various state of gaming reports" — by who? From where? We'll end up reading different material, which means that we'll probably have different data backing up our points. There has to be a baseline for all this. It would be like me (a [i]former[/i], not failed, graduate student) writing an essay on Dickens's [i]Bleak House[/i] and then giving barely any context clues as to which novel it was, but mentioning that it was set in London and written sometime after [i]Barnaby Rudge[/i]. Then, when people asked me which novel I meant, I would tell them that that was what Barnes & Noble or their local library was for. It's not good practice if you're looking to establish discourse (oh no! I said "discourse" instead of "conversation" — stupid academic plague!). Nick [/QUOTE]

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