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No, plain google search does not allow to evaluate the media usage since it cannot distinguish the usage in historic context from the modern context usage. Current media do just that. Google News would give you a better shot but still not the best one as Google News gives equal weight to the major players in the media market, like NYTimes and some local newspaper which is very little read and may not even have a written down manual of style and editorial staff to enforce it. The best way is to do major media search for, say, last 2-5 years. To do that you need special search engines and I do not know of any that is free. [[LexisNexis]] subscription service I used suggests Dnipropetrovsk is more common in major media. --[[User:Irpen|Irpen]] 17:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
The issue of whether it is current or historical is an easily met objection. You just search for the name and the year. I have done this both for 2000-2007 and also the years of the GPW and at ten year intervals between 1950 and 1990, to see how they compare. For pages from the UK the results are as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
! 1941
! 1942
! 1943
! 1944
! 1945
! rowspan=4 weight = 2|
! 1950
! 1960
! 1970
! 1980
! 1990
! rowspan=4 weight = 2|
! 2000
! 2001
! 2002
! 2003
! 2004
! 2005
! 2006
! 2007
|-
|Dnepropetrovsk
|align=right| 590
|align=right| 329
|align=right| 619
|align=right| 370
|align=right| 898
|align=right| 897
|align=right| 3,430
|align=right| 8,160
|align=right| 12,900
|align=right| 1,200
|align=right| 705
|align=right| 647
|align=right| 781
|align=right| 990
|align=right| 10,300
|align=right| 66,600
|align=right| 13,000
|align=right| 75,500
|-
|Dniepropetrovsk
|align=right| 30
|align=right| 26
|align=right| 111
|align=right| 22
|align=right| 31
|align=right| 56
|align=right| 24
|align=right| 76
|align=right| 94
|align=right| 115
|align=right| 173
|align=right| 188
|align=right| 151
|align=right| 198
|align=right| 167
|align=right| 248
|align=right| 270
|align=right| 131
|-
|Dnipropetrovsk
|align=right| 288
|align=right| 192
|align=right| 164
|align=right| 242
|align=right| 245
|align=right| 738
|align=right| 567
|align=right| 284
|align=right| 7,650
|align=right| 488
|align=right| 624
|align=right| 678
|align=right| 2,700
|align=right| 1,590
|align=right| 546
|align=right| 505
|align=right| 707
|align=right| 749
|}
This is really interesting, because it seems that in the years covered by [[User:Irpen|Irpen's]] research, that the Ukrainian-language spelling ''may'' have been more common in English pages, however for some reason the spelling used by people who actually live there and do business there is ''now'' accepted current usage.--[[User:Toddy1|Toddy1]] 19:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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