Talk:Wallball (children's game)

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Added Pop — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.15.246 (talk) 09:57, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article was nominated for deletion on 19 February 2012. The result of the discussion was merge with American handball and Chinese handball.

This game is played in many schools in WA. I can go on record as playing it in high school in 1989 in Perth. Anyone know the earliest this was played?

203.16.180.136 (talk) 12:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I moved to Vermont in 1986 and back then we were playing a very similar game which we called 'Watermelon' only it was played with a larger ball - the red rubber bouncy ball used for kickball and dodgeball in elementary schools. See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhsAKRn10G4 (hopefully I'm not breaking the rules by putting an outside website here). Niccast (talk) 05:36, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Australia[edit]

Are the comments about Australia genuinely for Wallball, or do they actually refer to Downball? —DIV (1.129.111.116 (talk) 03:37, 20 October 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Requested move 19 May 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 06:21, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wallball → Wallball (children's game)
Wallball (disambiguation) → Wallball

Suggest moving this article elsewhere and making the six-game list at Wallball (disambiguation) the primary. There are several games in the US and Australia which are "also known as wallball" and there's nothing to suggest that the one that happens to be described here - with one weak source and what looks like an accumulation of local rules - is the single WP:PRIMARYTOPIC that most visitors will be looking for. Lord Belbury (talk) 19:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support This game does not appear to be a primary topic. Wallball (game) is sufficient disambiguation, though. 162 etc. (talk) 21:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Support this alternative Wallball (game). Proposed name Wallball (children's game) is excessive disambiguation. Andrewa (talk) 20:00, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support' In ictu oculi (talk) 22:02, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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