Talk:East St. Louis, Illinois
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[edit] Copyvio??
Some of the recently added text seems to be lifted from this article. That carries a tag ©2006 Village Voice Media All rights reserved. so we may not want to use that text as is. ++Lar: t/c 23:45, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History
What's up with the history section?Wandering Star 16:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
- The History section is lifted, verbatim, from here (interestingly enough, same website as the above noted potential copyvio). I'm going to try and rewrite it soon.
- On another note, the "East St. Louis Riot of 1917" portion of the article is a verbatim copy and paste of another wiki article (which is tagged as in need of a clean-up).
- For those two reasons, and few others, I'm tagging this article as in need of a clean-up.OverlordChris 22:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've just reverted copyvio part of that section (and added some). Fortunately, it won't be a problem in Japanese wikipedia, since I didn't include any of problematic parts into translated article, ja:イーストセントルイス.Yassie 03:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Sounds like a great place to live!
The history page is garbage. (39 blacks were killed on the July 2 riots, not in the May riots) and I'll try to rewrite it when I have time. If you want a solid history, try Rudwick Race Riot in ESL or McLaughlin Power, Community and Racial Killing in ESL. Or hell, quote from here: http://www.riverweb.uiuc.edu/IBEX/nunes/esl%20history/race_riot.htm. Im writing my thesis about the riot (student at Duke)
[edit] John Bowman
The link goes to a different John Bowman. What's policy? 217.132.11.23 15:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
That picture makes East St. Louis look way too good. I don't think that justifies what you normally see there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.249.214.142 (talk) 02:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] The African American population is the majority is should not be listed second
The African American population is the majority is should not be listed second. So it should be listed first and changes were made from second to first. The numbers were not altered just the positionOperationmajoritypower 19:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
