On 2020-11-26 14:06, John Hawkinson wrote:
On Sept. 16, 2020, Wikipedia finally decided that the time had come and moved its page from Kiev to Kyiv. Seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kyiv/Archive_7#Requested_move_28_August_2... It was summarized with:
| Rough consensus that "Kyiv" is the better title given usage in | reliable, English-language sources. An extended summary/rationale | prefaces the discussion. — Wug·a·po·des 06:58, 16 September 2020 | (UTC)
Current occurrence counts are "Kiev": 135e+6 "Kyiv": 48e+6 so that the frequencies of the two spellings are indeed not far apart. The file theory.html suggests a switch in case of "long-time widespread use of the new city name instead of the old". I think that this is consistent with waiting for a majority for Kyiv. My spelling checker knows "Kiev" but not "Kyiv". Michael Deckers.