Editing lists should include old names of countries from the 17-1800's
I was helping with place name identification of individuals living in countries that don't exist anymore as listed on birth and death certificates. I noticed that you are using Czechoslovakia for Slovakia as a place name. Czechoslovakia is now Czechia and Slovakia, taking old names back when it was separated. There was no choice for Slovakia in the drop down box, nor was there a way to change the names of the locations recorded when needed.
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(None of the labels "Czechoslovakia", "Czechia", and "Slovakia" existed prior to 1920. What did exist were the Austrian crown lands of Bohemia and Moravia, and the "Highlands" [Felvidék] region of Hungary.)
I think you must be talking about the "Fix place-names" volunteer opportunity? The drop-down for that only offers a limited number of choices, because it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: the whole point of the exercise is that the computer doesn't know what point on the map to associate with the user-entered text. It can make a guess, which is what the drop-down's categories represent; asking for it to be more specific in its guesses is unlikely to be useful.
If none of the choices in the drop-down are correct, then you'll just need to type in the right place label.
You can use the Places tool (https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/) to figure out the correct label. Just keep in mind that the database is far from complete. For example, 90% of places in Slovakia are disconnected from their jurisdictions prior to 1920. I had to check that yes, the place in Nógrád has the map pin in the same place as the one in Lučenec. (It helped that I know that Lučenec = Losonc and that Losonc was in Nógrád.)
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