Talk:Prasad

Requested move 25 August 2025

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 17:03, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

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Prasad (disambiguation) → Prasad – Prasada, as in the offering, doesn't appear to be the primary topic for the term prasad in English. A Google search suggests that person names are probably the most common occurrence. Suggest moving the disambiguation page over the plain title. Paul_012 (talk) 05:05, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

• Comparison of monthly page views for the redirect, the disambiguation page and the name list
• Mass views of all items linked from the disambiguation list
• Mass views of all items linked from the name list
• WikiNav for the destination (where the Prasad redirect traffic is folded in, not distinguishable)

The overall volume of traffic at the name list, which is no less than 2 clicks away in our navigation, has often been larger than that at the redirect, even if these lists don't usually attract a huge amount of traffic. This usually means the search engines point reader traffic there despite our navigation.

We don't know the exact ratio of people who look up Prasad and then click the hatnote, but it is #3 in the top list of outgoing clickstreams, even at this low volume.

When we look at the overall readership, it's clear that the interest in people, like Lalu Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, Devi Sri Prasad, Shweta Prasad, etc, far outpaces the interest in the food, by several orders of magnitude (tens of thousands per day vs less than a hundred per day). Some of these people have obviously large long-term significance, like the first president of India.

Even without the biographies, the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute has higher general readership than the previously presumed primary topic, and it's named after a person.

While the food topic may possibly be the single mononymously known Prasad out there, these statistics seem to generally support the idea that it is not the primary topic, something for which the standard is higher. (Support) --Joy (talk) 13:30, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nomination and per extensive research by Joy. There are nine entries [one of which is the four-entry Prasada Rao (disambiguation) page and another is the multi-entry Prasad (name) page] listed upon the Prasad (disambiguation) page, with little indication that the entry delineating religious offering of vegetarian food dwarfs the combined prominence of the remaining entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:00, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

post-move

Clickstreams since the move show healthy spreads:

clickstream-enwiki-2025-09.tsv:

• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 48
• Prasad Prasada link 41
• total: 89 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2025-10.tsv:

• Prasad Prasada link 79
• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 43
• total: 122 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2025-11.tsv:

• Prasad Prasada link 63
• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 40
• total: 103 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2025-12.tsv:

• Prasad Prasada link 39
• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 38
• total: 77 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2026-01.tsv:

• Prasad Prasada link 54
• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 50
• total: 104 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2026-02.tsv:

• Prasad Prasad_(name) link 50
• Prasad Prasada link 37
• total: 87 to 2 identified destinations

--Joy (talk) 19:35, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Page views for the navigation elements likewise indicate no primary topic. --Joy (talk) 19:38, 11 March 2026 (UTC)