Manage Android Messaging Contacts

[ronbo613]

Apparently, there are two Contact lists on my Android 4.4.2 phone; a "Phone" list and a "Message" list. I can edit the Phone list contacts easily but there seems to be no way to edit the Messaging contact list that has a lot of duplicate entries.

I googled around and discovered this is not unusual and there seems to be no definite answer on how to manage the Messaging contacts. Syncing to the main Google account and managing the contacts from there does not work.

Any ideas?