Talk:Canada Bill Jones

Sources and WP Article Similar
Would someone else please look at the sources that are used for this article. The language of the article, even where it doesn't use quotation marks, seems to me uncomfortably close to the language of the two online sources. Is it Fair Use? David in DC (talk) 17:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I haven't yet read the sources, but even if there isn't copyright infringement, the language is too informal, and there is too much jargon. Coconutporkpie (talk) 02:15, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Removed quote
""Yeah, but it's the only game in town!" - on being told by George Devol that a Faro game in Cairo, Illinois was crooked."

This quote actually seems to come from chapter 8 of Upton Sinclair's The Metropolis (1908): --ADavidJohnson (talk) 00:06, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * "God knows," said the other; "I don't. I sometimes wonder myself. I guess it's because I've nothing else to do. It's like the story they tell about my brother—he was losing money in a gambling-place in Saratoga, and some one said to him, 'Davy, why do you go there—don't you know the game is crooked?' 'Of course it's crooked,' said he, 'but, damn it, it's the only game in town!'"