Talk:Kutaisi Governorate

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Hello Wikipedians, as you may know, the common, prevailing theme for Russian Imperial province article names in English Wikipedia is their commonly-appearing Anglicisation in English sources. For example, the more common "Ardahan Okrug" is used instead of the transliterated "Ardagan Okrug" or "Ardaganskii Okrug" (there is no "h" in Russian, it usually is replaced by "g" or "kh"), therefore, to determine the article title for the Kutais Governorate, the most-commonly appearing spelling/Anglicisation in English language sources should be found, which is commonly done on Wikipedia by counting the search results from searching each variation on Google Ngram, Google Scholar, and Google Advanced Book Search, per WP:SET.
 * Google Ngram Search
 * –| Both variants compared
 * Google Scholar Search
 * –| "Kutais Governorate": 17 results
 * –| "Kutais Gubernia": 5 results
 * –| "Kutais Guberniia": 2 results
 * –| "Kutais Guberniya": 8 results
 * –| "Kutais Province": 28 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Governorate": 17 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Gubernia": 24 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Guberniia": 5 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Guberniya": 9 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Province": 98 results
 * Google Advanced Book Search, per WP:SET (hide “Tools” to see totals):
 * –| "Kutais Governorate": 255 results
 * –| "Kutais Gubernia": 92 results
 * –| "Kutais Guberniia": 54 results
 * –| "Kutais Guberniya": 85 results
 * –| "Kutais Province": 349 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Governorate": 221 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Gubernia": 153 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Guberniia": 78 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Guberniya": 57 results
 * –| "Kutaisi Province": 720 results

From tallying these results, it is evident that "Kutaisi" (Governorate) with 1382 results is the more commonly appearing variant in English sources (compared with "Kutais" with 895 results, or 487 fewer) and thus the easiest for readers to find and piece-together in their understanding of the districts of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801-1917). Even if we deduct the results of the "Kutais/Kutais Province, to avoid reference to the contemporary Georgian Kutaisi district, the results are still in favour of Kutaisi with 564 for and 518 against. In conclusion, it can be inferred from the results that the most commonly-appearing Anglicisation of the district, "Kutaisi Governorate", should be used in the article title, however, due to the significant usage of "Kutais" Governorate, it is worthwhile to make mention the variant spelling in the article. -Nunuxxx (talk) 02:00, 24 December 2021 (UTC)