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Inconsistency

Belostok Oblast - translated as districts, links go to polish counties (X County)

Requested move 12 July 2021

The request to rename this article to Uezd has been carried out.

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Uyezd → Uezd – Per WP:COMMONNAME, as this is the most common spelling in reliable sources. It also corresponds to more romanization schemes, including the modified Library of Congress system widely used in academic and popular-academic sources, so it slightly better satisfies the WP:CRITERIA of recognizability and naturalness. This is important for this foreign borrowing that is absent from most general dictionaries (it is partly naturalized: plural forms Russian uezdy and anglicized uezds are used).[1]

Google Books Ngram shows that uezd has clearly been the most common spelling for five decades.

Searching reliable sources, per WP:SET:

Google Advanced Books Search

"uezd" -Wikipedia: “about 31,000 results” (2.1× the next result)
"uyezd" -Wikipedia: “about 14,700 results”
"ujezd" -Wikipedia: “about 2,590 results”
"uiezd" -Wikipedia: “187 results”

Google Scholar Search

"uezd" -Wikipedia: “about 5,540 results” (1.8× the next result)
"uyezd" -Wikipedia: “about 3,060 results”
"ujezd" -Wikipedia: “922 results”
"uiezd" -Wikipedia: “75 results”

This may affect many titles. There are nearly 400 articles and redirects in the main space with uyezd in the title (anybody know how to count articles only?). —Michael Z. 15:53, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Most or all of the affected articles should be in the tree of Category:Uyezds of the Russian Empire.