The question is, whether it is an alternative
spelling or simply a
misspelling of a name, and is google the place to determine whether
something is an alternative spelling. For instance, there are sites that
refer to William Shakespear, even though the contemporary conventional
form is Shakespeare. As for Adolf/Adolf Hitler, there are two reason
that it would be spelled with ph--1) the person spelling it is using the
English, rather than the German, version of the name, though I can't
really see a justification for this: we write Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, not John Wolfgang, and Konrad Adenauer, not Conrad (although
admittedly, there are some instances where the English variant of a name
is commonplace, i.e., William Tell); 2) the more likely, that the person
either didn't know or made a mistake. I don't think we need to
record misspellings, otherwise we can get stuck up with every variant
typo, incl. Jospeh Goebbels.
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If a misspelling gets 70,000 hits on Google it deserves a brief mention.
Fred