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)
It needs more factual material as well as clean-up. Very poorly sourced. It needs much more about the relation of industry and jobs; there is little explanation or discussion of early 20th century history. --Parkwells 16:32, 4 December 2007 (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)

There must be more documentation on the riot than this - it's just journalistic sensationalism. I did some minor work on the separate article page on the riot, but it needs more substantiation and historical perspective.--Parkwells 16:09, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[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).

I agree - it's unlikely to be typical of what the article notes.--Parkwells 16:33, 4 December 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)

[edit] Citations

The footnotes or citations in the second paragraph of the riot section don't work. Standard in-line citations should be provided.--Parkwells (talk) 21:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 19xx?

"In 19xx the state imposed a financial advisory board to manage the city in exchange for a financial bailout. Gordon Bush was elected mayor in 1991. State approval in 19xx of riverboat gambling and the coming of the Casino Queen riverboat casino provided the first new source of income for the city in nearly 30 years."

This bit reads uncannily like the opening scroll from an early-'80s Capcom arcade game. 19xx? Seriously? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.223.230.30 (talk) 21:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Monsanto

I'd like to see info about how Monsanto and other companies have polluted the environment, etc., and by incorporating the land their buildings sit on into separate cities have lost East St. Louis millions of dollars in tax revenue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.221.155.90 (talk) 20:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)