The hobby can handle it, easilly...

I visit a few sites once a week and, even though the same old content is seen on several of them, there are sections with newly added pieces and updated monograms where someone found an old photo or letterhead which was previously unknown. One site even offes comments pertaining to ID... and, one was a virtual duplicate of ChipChipGuide info without the notation that the images were from ChipGuide... and though I didn't care. since I was getting the exposure of my material (serial numberers, they don't lie), I still asked here during one of those heated threads about giving credit to ChipGuide, why the site (EU) had the same images and, the. response was that ChipGuide has arrangements with some where images are traded and, of course; that's how I noticed it in my search where most of what I had on those sites were the only pieces in the World... it was very helpful to both me and buyers.... All of this and more is all archived here.

My thinking has not changed; show me as much as you can of accurate and documented information wherever you can and I'm a player but, I will never stand for the "It has been confirmed by Mr X that the chip is from XXX Casino" without proof...

This hobby is still young in the US compared to gaming jurisdictions in Europe, where chippers were exchanging new finds and added denominations in newspapers and books. We find casinos in some of those old travel books that existed over 140 years ago that nobody in the hobby knew about previously and then find the backup in postcards and whateved.... This hobby can handle many forms of educational guides right here in the US... and all they need is exposure...