Talk:Tiškevičiai Palace, Palanga

message: I've also heard that Alfred Tyszkiewicz and his wife formally donated the palace to the city of Palanga. It would be good to verify when this actually happened. I believe in 1990s ? --Lysytalk 10:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ownership of the palace. 

message: Background: Tiskevičius is singular, Tiskevičiai plural. Most WP mirrors excluded. Palace, mansion, and manor considered. The web searches include reliable sources such as museums, city/county websites, conference announcements. 
*198 English pages for tiskevicius palace palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*112 English pages for Tyszkiewicz palace palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*55 English pages for tiskevicius mansion palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*34 English pages for Tyszkiewicz mansion palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*82 English pages for Tiskevicius manor palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*37 English pages for Tyszkiewicz manor palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts 
*Gbooks - 11 on tiskevicius (manor OR mansion OR palace) palanga . Of these, 8 are for Tiskevicius Palace 
*Gbooks - 18 on Tyszkiewicz (manor OR mansion OR palace) palanga  
*We do have 73 English pages for tiskeviciai (palace OR mansion OR manor) palanga -wikipedia -citizendia -answers.com -reference.com -translate.earthcam -wikimedia -absoluteastronomy -allexperts  While these don't exceed the number of Tiskevicius Palace hits, they do go to support the LT version of the surname in this entity. Novickas (talk) 17:55, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: How so? The Google results are quite messed up, but even the Google Book result you cite above show that Tyszkiewicz Palace is much more popular. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  20:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you explain what you see as unclear about the search results? They show that the most common English-language name for this entity is Tiskevicius palace. Is the OR usage a problem? It's algebraic; a Google search of A (B OR C OR D) is the equivalent of find (A and B) or (A and C) or (A and D). If you find this confusing, I can separately iterate the search results for Tiskevicius palace, Tiskevicius manor, Tiskevicius mansion, Tyszkiewicz palace, etc. Also, please note that while Wikipedia:Naming conflict urges the use of reliable sources, these are not confined to books. I am assuming the ratio of reliable-to-unreliable sources is the same for both the PL (Tyszkiewicz) and Lithuanian (Tiskevicius or Tiskeviciai) usages. Someone could, of course, analyze both sets source by source. Novickas (talk) 04:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Search "results" become more and more "unclear," and "quite messed up," when they don't support the changes desired. Dr. Dan (talk) 15:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Search results