Talk:Bhandara

Shouldn't disambiguation page appear by default?

Shouldn't this page appear by default when searching for Bhandara, as it has multiple meanings? Instead, the default result is for one of the definitions. I ask because this is causing problems for linking automatically to the insect from iNaturalist. It would be preferable for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhandara to show this page, and for the city to appear at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhandara_(city). My understanding is that it usually works in that way. Benphalan (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

The disambiguation page should be at the base title Bhandara is there is no primary topic for this term (the wikipedia guidelines for that are at WP:PTOPIC). At first glance, it looks like the city of 100,000 people is probably good as a primary topic, though of course there may be something I'm missing, so you'll let me know if that's the case? This situation is not unique to Bhandara, there are a large number of genera names (probably hundreds), where the primary title is taken neither by a genus article nor a disambiguation page, but an article about something else. So there should be some way to specify the correct Wikipedia article form within iNaturalist? – Uanfala (talk) 15:10, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

If there is no primary topic, then yes indeed, the dab page should be the default. I'll create the formal WP:RM discussion. - UtherSRG (talk) 20:42, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 19 March 2023

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 section.

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• Bhandara → Bhandara (city)
• Bhandara (disambiguation) → Bhandara

– No WP:ptopic, so dab should be the default. I'm agnostic on the location of the city article. - UtherSRG (talk) 20:45, 19 March 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 22:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Disambiguation, Noticeboard for India-related topics, and WikiProject Maharashtra have been notified of this discussion. UtherSRG (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose The city is getting a good majority of the pageviews [1] and appears to be a justified primary topic. 162 etc. (talk) 16:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Bhandara doesn't indicate there's any appreciable volume of clicks on the hatnote, though. --Joy (talk) 20:31, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

• Supportthe other meanings are also rilevant.MrKeefeJohn (talk) 07:02, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support Pageviews for the district and city seem similar enough to have to disambiguate between them. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 08:37, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Relist to discuss whether the page views are similar to enough to require disambiguation, or if they establish the city as primary. BilledMammal (talk) 22:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Support per MrKeefeJohn and ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ. There are 12 entries (including the two under "See also") listed upon the Bhandara (disambiguation) page, with no specific indication that the renown of one entry overshadows the combined notability of the remaining 11 entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:10, 30 March 2023 (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.

followup to move

https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Bhandara indicates that of the 249 views of the list in October '23, the most commonly identified clickstreams went to the community kitchen and the district. --Joy (talk) 19:01, 18 December 2023 (UTC)