A lot of these are general problems that occur in many contexts, not really specific to geography. E.g. the "multiple names" issue. A big problem with the boo

A lot of these are general problems that occur in many contexts, not really specific to geography. E.g. the "multiple names" issue. A big problem with the book site "goodreads" is that they only allow a single value for many fields. Some people entering a book will use the title exactly as it occurs on the cover, others will use an English translation of the title, others will use a transliteration. All are "correct" in some sense, but interesting in different contexts. Similarly, a single author can have different names in different contexts, sometimes keyed by language, sometimes by time, etc. But goodreads cannot handle more than one entry in any of these fields, and the result is a mess, with huge inconsistencies between works, and confusing attempts to work around the limitations, e.g. multiple "authors" that are really the same person with the name slightly changed. A good first step to fixing this would be to simply allow multiple alternatives for most fields, followed, hopefully by some way of tagging the context in which they're interesting...