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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 Zakatal Okrug, 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.

Variants: Zakatal (262 results, 41.13%), Zakatala (13 results, 2.04%), Zakatali (251 results, 39.40%), Zakataly (63 results, 9.98%), Zagatala (37 results, 5.81%), Zaqatala (11 results, 1.73%)

Google Ngram Search

–All variants compared

Google Scholar Search

–"Zakatal okrug": 0 results

–"Zakatala okrug": 5 results

–"Zakatali okrug": 2 results

–"Zakataly okrug": 6 results

–"Zagatala okrug": 1 result

–"Zaqatala okrug": 6 results

Google Advanced Book Search, per WP:SET (hide “Tools” to see totals):

–"Zakatal okrug": 262 results

–"Zakatala okrug": 8 results

–"Zakatali okrug": 249 results

–"Zakataly okrug": 57 results

–"Zagatala okrug": 36 results

–"Zaqatala okrug": 5 results

From tallying these results, it is evident that "Zakatal Okrug" with 262 results is the more commonly appearing variant in English sources (compared with "Zakatali Okrug" with 11 fewer results) and thus the easiest for readers to find and piece-together in their understanding of the districts of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801-1917). In conclusion, it can be inferred from the results that the most commonly-appearing Anglicisation of the district, "Zakatal Okrug", should be used in the article title, however, due to the significant usage of "Zakatali Okrug", it is worthwhile to make mention the variant spelling in the article. -Nunuxxx (talk) 13:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]