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Muckleball

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Very poor sourcing and no evidence of notability found when searching online. The 4 sources at the moment are [1] a crowdsourced local paper, not a real journalistic reliable source: [2] an opinion piece: [3] a self-published book; [4] and a 1911 article about a baseball game called the Muckleball game, with no indication at all that this is in any way related to what is described in the Wikipedia article. These issues were discussed with the editor, but to no avail. Fram (talk) 08:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 08:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete due to lack of reliable sourcing. I have removed the third source due to it being an Amazon listing and thus likely violating WP:USERGEN.

-Samoht27 (talk) 20:39, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m just wondering if you can find more scores because they have a game of Keep Away on here EliG233 (talk) 23:30, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and redirect to Tag (game). This article seems to be a near carbon copy of what already existed on the tag page under the section "Muckle" before recent edits. That is also where "smear the queer" redirects to which was, at least 20 years ago, the common name for this game in the US (I recognize the name is likely offensive to many, but since WP:UNCENSORED it should be included for informational purposes in the tag article and I have re-added it. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 01:34, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will note the section in tag is also much better sourced to academic articles. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 01:35, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Living_Age.html?id=yU0wAQAAMAAJ This has Muckleball in it EliG233 (talk) 19:39, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]