User blog comment:Phlox/Informal versus formal location information/@comment-2763-20090714094437

Looks good. I think either the soft or the hard would be fully workable, with the hard giving users less work to do and therefore maybe better.

Somewhere in the blog post you should explain the term "informal locations field", even if it has been explained elsewhere. Is it another field displayed on the form?

The form should include guidance on ambiguous names and how to enter them. Ideally, perhaps, a variant of "autocomplete" that displays every Wikipedia article that starts with what has been typed, so that users see (which they may not have realised) that there is a choice and can then probably hit the right one - such as "Georgia (U.S. state)".