Talk:List of people from East St. Louis, Illinois

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To be included on this stand-alone list, each entry should meet the following list criteria:

Per the standard people list criteria, only people who meet the biographical notability requirements may appear here.
A reliable source must be cited for their association with East St. Louis, whether born, raised, or residing.

The sources to establish notability and association can either be cited in a Wikipedia article about the person, or at the list entry itself.

Too complicated

This "list" is entirely too complicated to attract editors who want to add a name. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 04:29, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't agree more. It's questionable as to whether it even needs to exist, but I fully support its conversion to a bulleted list.

I'll look at the background as far as merging it back into the main article and report back. John from Idegon (talk) 08:31, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]