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Nine-pin versus Candlepin bowling

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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

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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

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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

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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]