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Table tennis was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
October 23, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Table tennis

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Add "Citation needed" templates

The article is not supported by citations for significant portions of its content, particularly in regards to technique, it may be wise to add multiple Template:Citation needed for currently unsupported claims or add the article-wide Template:More citations needed. Borjan-Valchanov (talk) 19:27, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2025

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Due to the significant lack of citations for a significant number of large portions of the article I hereby request an article-wide Template:More_citations_needed be added. Borjan-Valchanov (talk) 19:31, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. Warriorglance(talk to me) 06:05, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

James Gibb

English long distance athlete / engineer James Gibb is frequently attributed to popularising ping pong, and introducing it to Jacques, by introducing the cellulose ball after a company trip to the US. A number of sources support this: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1121041 https://www.masatenisi.org/english/history.htm Iacta (talk) 13:12, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]