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What are the round things called ? Bowls or balls ? Because I can see both terms used inter-changeably in the article.

Also, is the term always used in plural ? I'm just seeing if I can add this article link in the disambig page Bowl. Currently its in the "See also" list. Jay 10:17, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The white ball is the only object referred to as a ball. All references to the larger (generally black object) should be bowl (singular) or bowls (plural). The article also refers to scoring 'points' this makes it easier to understand but (in Australia at least) is not used. A score is said to be 23 to 20, a player may be on 15, or their may be a margin of +5 etc but not points 203.9.186.134 00:43, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)Derek

Thanks, I've made minor changes in the article to emphasize singular and plural usage. Jay 15:43, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The proper Bowls term for points is shots. --OntarioQuizzer 05:45, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another term for bowls is "woods" because they were originally made of the hard wood. Lignum Vitae.

Contents 1 21up 2 English Spellings 3 Featured Article 4 List of National Associations

[edit] 21up

The best Crown Green Bowling site on the web [1] http://www.21up.co.uk

[edit] English Spellings

Colour or Color

Labourer or Laborer

Centre or Center

In my opinion it should be Color, Laborer, and Center. Discuss.

I think either spelling is clear, but we should unify with other pages, and within the article it self. I have checked about 10 other pages, and most common spellings are: Color, Laborer, and Center. I think we should use these spellings.

gilmiciak

These issues are ALWAYS handled on a page by page basis, per WP:Engvar. There is need fo consistency within an article, but not between articles. Since bowls is predominantly played in commonwealth countries, commonwealth English makes the most sense to me. Failing that we should go with the first contributors preference but that doesn't seem necessary in this case Nil Einne (talk) 09:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article

I want to make this article a featured article, but am not sure how to go about doing it. Any advice would be great.

gilmiciak

No. This article shouldn't be featured because its description of the ball is vague. I don't understand what the ball looks like or how it is assymetric. Why is it assymetric? What effect does this have on playing the game? Is this like loaded dice in a craps game? --Zeamays (talk) 19:23, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think anyone is saying the article should be featured in its current format. Clearly it needs a lot of work. I will add some photos of bowls to the article today. The bowls are asymmetrical in that one side of the bowl is bigger than the other. Therefore as the bowl rolls down the green, one side is moving slightly quicker than the other and so the bowl curves. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 21:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of National Associations

It would be nice to have a list of links to national bowling associations all over the world. Any objections to me starting such a list?

Varange2 (talk) 20:31, 23 December 2007 (UTC)