Talk:Vassily Ivanchuk

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I see that NighOnEarth moved the article a year ago from the most commonly known name Vassily Ivanchuk to the current name. Such move was a poor idea even if only because it was not proposed first.

There is a convinsing evidence, that Vassily Ivanchuk is the most commonly used name in English. As per WP:NC(UE): "If you are talking about a person, country, town, movie or book, use the most commonly used English version of the name for the article"

I did some research to determine the most commonly used English name and here are the results.

media

I made a search of the usage restricted to the Major English language papers in the last 24 months using the Lexis Nexis. These are the results for several variants:

• "Vasyl Ivanchuk" - 0 hits
• "Vasily Ivanchuk" + Chess - 46 hits, most of which are in the Daily Telegraph
• "Vassily Ivanchuk" + Chess - 206 hits including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Independent, The Australian, The Observer, Ottawa Citizen, The Guardian, The Houston Chronicle. All of the above are major players in the media market.

Google

Google results restricted to the English sites:

• "Vasyl Ivanchuk" -wikipedia - 70 hits
• "Vasily Ivanchuk" -wikipedia - 649 hits
• "Vassily Ivanchuk" -wikipedia - 44,000 (!) hits.

The article needs moved to the latter title. --Irpen 02:07, 24 September 2006 (UTC)