Talk:Nine-pin bowling

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Nine-pin versus Candlepin bowling

These two articles do not distinguish nor even reference each other. Both are played with 9 pins. This article claims that nine-pin is only played in Texas and implies that it has been supplanted by ten-pin elsewhere. In New England and eastern Canada, ten-pin is rare.139.139.35.70 (talk) 08:08, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Candlepin bowling is played with ten pins. It's not a variant of nine-pin bowling. oknazevad (talk) 02:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nine Pin Bowling in Sebring, Florida

Nine Pin bowling is also available at the Kegel Bowling Facility, in Sebring, Florida...which has been there for 15 years or more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.162.24 (talk) 08:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Source for info

What is the source for this info in the "Origins" section under the "American version" heading?:

"Nine-pins was the most popular form of bowling in much of the United States from colonial times until the 1830s, when several cities in the United States banned nine-pin bowling out of moral panic over the supposed destruction of the work ethic, gambling, and organized crime." Blessant (talk) 07:10, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion

Request received to merge articles: Kegel_(bowling) into Nine-pin_bowling; dated: 02/2021. Discuss here. 85.212.38.49 (talk) 11:26, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There doesn't seem to be a burning desire to merge these. Of course, proposer could try a BOLD merge. GenQuest ^"scribble" 22:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't the proposer, but I agree with the merger, and carried it out. This article and the other were redundant, and this one already lists "kegel" as a synonym for the game. It's just the German name for the same game, and per WP:USEENGLISH, the single article should be at the English name. PS, The tags should have been up for longer than two weeks. oknazevad (talk) 11:13, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]