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: Not moved There was consensus for rejecting the proposed name. There was no consensus about whether "Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa" or "R. Praggnanandhaa" was the best choice of article title. (non-admin closure) Bejnar (talk) 00:26, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa → Praggnanandhaa – With respect to WP:COMMONNAME clause. All cited sources in the article unanimously address the subject as Praggnanandhaa, hence it should be the title. Also Here Appu (talk) 11:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC) Appu (talk) 11:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• That's not true at all: the majority of the cited references use either the initial R. or, less commonly, the full patronymic Rameshbabu. I count only four where neither is used: [1][2][3][4]. All the pages listed on the first page of the Google News search results Appu provides also use the initial except for Chess.com which uses Rameshbabu, but none refer to him with just the given name. I support a move to R. Praggnanandhaa which from the foregoing appears to be the most common way his name is presented. It's also the preference of ChessBase India:[5][6][7]. In his GM title application to FIDE (his profile is here), he also used just R. rather than the full patronymic. I cannot support dropping the patronymic completely.

As an aside, it appears that his sister's name is also rarely given with the full patronymic, but usually as R. Vaishali or Vaishali R. Cobblet (talk) 15:26, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• I support a move to R. Praggnanandhaa. --- Vysotsky (talk) 18:57, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to R. Praggnanandhaa per Cobblet. -- Ab207 (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose I'm not sure how much of the elision of the family name is Indian naming tradition, and how much is concern for the privacy of a minor. Regardless, I can't support a mononym here without better evidence; neutral on R. Pragg style. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 23:04, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose It seems more like being lazy or economical. At least in some cases, the omission of "Rameshbabu" seems to be to avoid confusing readers because his coach is also named "Ramesh". Considering the WP:CRITERIA, the title we have seems to be superior to the alternatives proposed. Usedtobecool ☎️ 16:38, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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. On common name grounds. Vaishali will be moved to R Vaishali instead. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 02:10, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa → R Praggnanandhaa
• Vaishali Rameshbabu → Vaishali R

– Most sources (including FIDE) prefer to use the initial R as opposed to the full form Rameshbabu [8][9][10] [11], as mentioned in the above move discussion. The discussion was closed with no consensus about this move, but it seemed like several users supported the move so I'd like to reopen it to hear more opinions on this. 9ninety (talk) 14:59, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Italic text[reply]

• Comment: Possibly in line with what you might expect given this is a naming tradition used in Tamil Nadu, I think Indian sources tend to go with "R Praggnanandhaa", and Western sources tend to go with "Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa". When I google "R Praggnanandhaa", generally I mostly get Indian news articles, with the exception of this article in the BBC, written by BBC's India correspondent. When I google "Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa", I get articles in worldchess.com, NYT, Al Jazeera, CNN, etc., along with a couple Indian-focused websites too. Being a prodigious hopeful for Indian chess, most sources discussing him in English probably hail from India, so I think "R Praggnanandhaa" is more common as a percentage of all the English-language sources which exist about him. I'm not sure what the appropriate thing to do in this case is, but perhaps WP:TITLEVAR plays a role here, and we should go with "R Praggnanandhaa" given this article's strong ties to India? Endwise (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support: As per WP:TITLEVAR and because most source use R. Agree with you both — Krutarth (talk) 04:15, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Shouldn't the article be moved to "Praggnanandhaa R", rather than "R Praggnanandhaa"? This is what the FIDE card displays, and it seems to match other Tamil Nadu chess player article names, such as Gukesh D. DeRhamCohomology (talk) 10:41, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support R Praggnanandhaa as common name. If it wasn't such a clear case i wouldn't support the abbreviation. Not sure of the precedent of WP:TITLEVAR in this regard but in the absence of a formalised Tamil Nadu name convention here at WP IN i don't think we can rely on that. I also support R Vaishali as used in the NIE, TOI, The Hindu etc. I suspect that chess websites using Vaishali R are simply mirroring FIDE by principle. Note that FIDE doesn't use R Praggnanandhaa but the reverse, so in both cases there's a similarity of FIDE not matching common usage. Zindor (talk) 14:05, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support R Praggnanandhaa and R Vaishali. Kpddg ^(talk) 07:12, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support this move. There also seems to be a case to move to just Praggnanandhaa, but I believe the 'safer' option is the one proposed in this requested move. Willbb234 18:40, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Very Strong Oppose Obviously, we could shorten it even to Pragg, but what is the point of this silliness? People can't learn his name when the CNN anchors have? I mean should we change Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to EmCee? I find it fascinating that the first thing Wikipedians do, before they can write two sentences of coherent prose, it to memorize some silly rules and throw it at each other. Let the young fellow keep his name, not subject to your Google ngrams or WP:THISORTHAT. I have to shake my head. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 00:58, 31 May 2022 (UTC) Added on 6/11/22, In light of my discovery that the media that uses "R. Prag..." are pretty much all Indian. I did a binary search, see my reply to Ab* below, and only two out of the first 100 returns were international. The sample was so biased. What compulsion Indian newspapers have for shortening the young man's name, I have no idea, but it is obviously introducing a bias in WP's choice of description and words. I say this as a battle-hardened veteran of such POV changes on WP, a veteran of nearly 16 years. user:Endwise's notion that it is somehow linked to Tamil Nadu is not accurate; it was once upon a time, but a large number of the more recent people from Tamil Nadu retain their full names. I will make a list below. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 18:19, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Praggnanandhaa himself used the initial "R" on his GM title application, and his FIDE page also uses the abbreviation. If Pragg really had a problem with it, he could easily just ask FIDE to change it. So I don't really see your point. We don't have to shorten it to "Pragg", R Praggnanandhaa is completely and probably more recognizable and more commonly used. 9ninety (talk) 11:16, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand the logic. We are talking about the page name. We don't have to use it after the first sentence. I'm not seeing why it can't be: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, commonly R. Praggnanandhaa and familiarly Pragg is an Indian grandmaster etc. and use Praggnanandhaa thereafter throughout the article. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:44, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

His full name would still be mentioned in the article's lead, but since "R Praggnanandhaa" is the most common way of presenting his name (may even be preferred by Pragg himself), it makes more sense for the article title. People won't confuse him for anybody else if Rameshbabu isn't included in the title. It is also the format used in professional tournaments for his name. Btw, see also Gukesh D and S. L. Narayanan for example. 9ninety (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see. OK. Good explanation. I'm still keeping my oppose though.Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Endwise's notion that it is somehow linked to Tamil Nadu is not accurate" I would not be so quick to dismiss what Endwise said - while many people do indeed internationalise their names, traditional naming conventions are still very common in South India, and from personal experience I'd say initial-ising the surname is as common as, if not more so than, using both names in full. H. D. Kumaraswamy, D. K. Shivakumar, M. K. Stalin, S. P. Balasubramaniam, T. M. Krishna, P. Unnikrishnan... while it is true that a large number of the more recent people from Tamil Nadu retain their full names (all over South India btw), Pragg does not seem to have publicly expressed a personal preference regarding his surname, so it is not unreasonable to say that his name might follow the old style too, and that seems to be Indian RSes' reasoning as well - apart from the fact that that's what he used on his GM title application, and what FIDE uses regularly. W. Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_c) 16:28, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support R Praggnanandhaa is evidently the common name as per most English-language reliable sources. -- Ab207 (talk) 12:48, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  It is most certainly not. If you do the binary search, "Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa" -"R. Praggnanandhaa" you get about 3,000 odd returns, but they cover many of the world's newspapers and other media, The Guardian Financial Times, FIDE, Reuters, MIT Technology Review, US Chess Federation, Taiwan News, CNBC, World Chess, Chess.com, La Presnsa Latina, Taipei Times, National Public Radio (NPR), Volkskrant, Chess24, ...

  If you do a search "R. Praggnanandhaa" -"Rameshbabu" you get 180,000 returns, but they are pretty much all Indian sites. I searched the first 100, and only two (if that) were international. Two appeared to be international but they were only sites for Indian expats. So who is WP beholden to, the echo chamber of the Indian media, in which if one newspaper reports something, within minutes hundreds mirror it not just in English but in dozens of Indian languages, or the world's most reliable newspapers? This change is much more biased than I had originally presumed. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 17:55, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  In light of this I will now change my oppose to Very strong oppose. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 17:57, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  "So who is WP beholden to, the echo chamber of the Indian media, in which if one newspaper reports something, within minutes hundreds mirror it not just in English but in dozens of Indian languages, or the world's most reliable newspapers?" Absent from your consideration are the millions of Indians who read mostly Indian sources. They may well be in an echo chamber, but the fact remains that that is the COMMONNAME people know him by. The Hindu, arguably India's most enWP-reliable large newspaper, uses only the initial, if it uses anything apart from his given name at all - in contrast to other chess players who appear in articles alongside Pragg, with whom the rules seem fairly inconsistent. Mentions of his full name on TH are few and far between. I do wonder, however, if all this really matters at all - there are redirects aplenty, and I don't think we'll be causing much trouble to readers either way. Kind regards, W. Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_c) 16:05, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The notion that using initials is somehow a nonnegotiable Tamil Nadu tradition is not quite true, or at least no longer true. It certainly was true, once upon a time, linked in part to not disrespecting the father's name (or family name) by making them game for the less than respectful pronunciation of others. Here is a short list of people from Tamil Nadu, or of TN heritage who have kept there full names on WP.

• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar American Nobel-prize-winning astrophysicist.
• Srinivasa Ramanujam Indian math genius
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA historian
• Madhu Sudan, MIT computer scientist
• Hari Balakrishnan, MIT artificial intelligence professor
• Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago economist
• Akshay Venkatesh Australian mathematician
• Shiv Nadar, Indian billionaire and philanthropist.
• Kannan Soundararajan Stanford University mathematician
• [[Sundar Pichai, CEO Google
• Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons
• Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah Harvard anthropologist
• Vishwanathan Anand Indian World Chess champion.

So you can't really make the argument that R. Prag... is the Tamil tradition and is therefore appropriate by the subject's strong links to India. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 18:49, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]