Claim: "Atlantis can be found many places anywhere/everywhere."
If the story is true then there can only be One true best match for Atlantis in world & history. Though it is possible that the compilers of the Account may have combined in some other traditions like the Flood of the Biblical world. Many places where they claim Atlantis matches they actually don't match some important details of the Account including distance, direction, size, high mountains, large plain, remains of concentric circles city and civislation, elephants, bulls, etc. Our candidate Tiahuanaco/Peru/South America has good matches for most of the details in the Atlantis Account.
Criticism: "Lots and lots of people have located Atlantis in lots and lots of places."
Yes but there can only be One place the is the Only best true match.
Criticism: "Can you show how you show that all these earlier proposed locations are wrong and yours is correct?"
Yes many sites can be ruled out because they don't match some of the details of the Atlantis Account including large size, west direction, far distance, highest mountains surrounding plain, large plain, many species of animals including elephants, remains of concentric circles city & civilisation, been "sunk", type of "sinking" catastrophe, etc. So for example Thera is wrong size, wrong distance, wrong direction (not west of Tyrrhenia etc), no large plain, no highest mountains, not sunken, no explosion in the Account, etc. Indonesia/Sundaland is wrong direction, etc. In this paper I try to show how our location has strong matches for most of the details of the Account. For more details on how other locations are ruled out and how our location matches most of the details see the relevant chapters of this paper. Incidentally there are far too many location theories to address and it is not reasonable to expect us to spend our life writing refutals of each and every one of them. It should suffice to only write refutals of the only one or few most major contenders, and also suffice to give the strong matches evidences of our own location candidate.
Note there will be other copies of Atlantis city in places where Atlanteans settled. So just because there is a similar concentric circles formation doesn't prove it is Atlantis. Many sites don't match the details of the Account such as size, direction, distance, large plain, highest mountains, many species of animals, elephants, etc.
Claim/criticism: "Atlantis may have been based on Thera/Santorini or Atalante. Atlantis may match Keftiou which is Crete."
Atalante or Thera and/or Crete doesn't match a number of details of the Atlantis Account including large size, large plain, remote distance, western direction, pillars of Hercules, sank/sunk, 10 kings, many species of animals including elephants, remains of pre-catastrophe concentric circles city, highest mountains, etc. The Atlanteans invaded/conquered upto Tyrrhenia and Egypt/Libya from west of these places. The Atlantis Account doesn't say anything about a volcanic explosion. Thera's and Atlantis' dates are both uncertain and may or may not match. "Crete is barren." Atlantis may or may not match Keftiou. Keftiou may or may not be Crete. Caphtor may or may not match Keftiou and/or Crete. Kaptara is said to have been where they fish amber out of the sea where the pole star stands at its zenith. There are many stark matches for most of the details of the Atlantis Account with Tiahuanaco/Peru/South America. Atlantis if it was true can only best match one place.