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She is a mayor in Philippines with Chinese ethnicity and questionable origins, documents and records that she herself don't have any idea about, and an owner of a company with a fugitive just right behind the municipality. Are the filipino people just thinking too much? 158.62.80.166 (talk) 15:55, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. Neither the proposed title, nor any of the alternatives have gained traction. The notability of Guo has been questioned, but a) this is not AfD, b) the discussion is trending towards WP:GNG being met. Favonian (talk) 17:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The coverage of the raids would not have gained that much traction if an alleged spy, posing as a mayor who seemingly had amnesia and whose citizenship is questionable, hadn't shown up. The level of threat to the national security of the Philippines brought by this person is unprecedented. Her alleged ties with transnational criminals extend beyond the raids in Bamban. HueMan1 (talk) 17:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the media coverage on her dubious biography (from her alleged childhood days in Bamban to being a mayor even if she is an unknown individual for much of the citizens of Bamban) warrants the article's retention as a biographical article. Alternatively, the section at the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator covering the Bamban raids should be split into a standalone article. JWilz12345(Talk|Contrib's.)07:53, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The Alice Guo affair has gotten a life of her own which transcends her involvement in POGOs, particularly now that there are suspicions regarding her origin that are now threatening to drag multiple political institutions in the country into serious scrutiny. Borgenland (talk) 09:08, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(Partial) Oppose Guo has become a rather significant (and arguably much bigger) topic for entirely different reasons than just the criminal activities of the Hongsheng firm. Although I agree our coverage of her would be better served under a different article format rather than a WP:BLP (provided again, that it's a separate coverage from the Bamban raids). But I struggle to think of an appropriate title (Bamban mayor POGO controversy doesn't quite cut it, as it still implies that the issue only involves her links to the POGOs). Better where it is for now, I guess, until we get more details from the investigation. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL12:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Urgent Rename - Obsidian Soul's position on this matter, as stated above, matches my own. So I will simply second it. But let me add that we need to take action quickly; the article has no business being a BLP.- Chieharumachi (talk) 04:43, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's not the "clunkiness" that is being addressed here. It's the fact that this should not be a BLP per WP:BLP1E and WP:SUSPECT. The scope and text of this article is not exactly about her. It's about her dubious identity. Without an identity that can be verified, we can not make a BLP. We aren't sure of anything at all about her supposed biography. Thus the article should be event-oriented, as Hariboneagle927 proposed (though not merged with the Bamban raids).
As I originally pointed out WP:BLP1E applies. I'm trying to formulate my thoughts better but Obsidian was spot on summarizing my point that this article should be event-oriented. Its not about the plausible search teams. Retaining Alice Guo as a search term will ensure that readers will be redirected to this article, at least in the coming months
Surely then a better sounding title could be had, like a Guo hearing to reference McCarthy (coincidence, not an endorsement of what the latter stood for). Borgenland (talk) 05:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What's the event cited as WP:BLP1E? The raids? The Senate hearings? Her candidacy and mayorship? Her missing mom? The memes? If the answer is more than one of those, then surely WP:BLP1E doesn't apply as there'd be more than one event?
WP:NPOL should be treated as a baseline, not the ceiling: a person not qualifying for it doesn't disqualify that person, but person that qualifies for it makes it automatically notable. Does this fail WP:GNG? If it does, WP:AFD is that way. WP:RM is primarily to change article titles, not article scopes. Howard the Duck (talk) 18:16, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The "event" is her questionable identity. Everything falls into that. Her connection to the POGOs, the hearings, her missing mom, the memes, etc. She's notable because of that and that alone.
The thing about having a questionable identity is you can not make a WP:BLP if no one knows who you really are. Is her name really Alice Guo? What's her birthdate? Her birthplace? Where did she grow up? Who are her parents and siblings? NONE of the acceptable sources can answer that. We have primary sources, like her birth certificate and her interviews, but those can not be used, because they're WP:BLPPRIMARY and WP:BLPSELFPUB, even if they werent contested, as they currently are.
So what do we have for a biography? That she's the mayor of Bamban. That's about the only uncontroversial information we have on her. That alone does not satisfy WP:NPOL.
But really, the most important part is that WP:BLP has one of the strictest policies and enforcement on Wikipedia. Normal policies don't apply to BLPs for a good reason. We are already skirting all those rules with the article's current content.
The question of Alice Guo's identity is notable. Everything written here can and should be retained. But it should not be in a BLP format.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL04:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How is someone's questionable identity an event? It's literally the humanity of a person that we are talking about if that's the case, and not ummmm... police raids? I could argue one's entire lifetime as an event, but that's stretching it.
Stop citing WP:NPOL. For the love of Xi Jinping I just explained this above. If a politician fails WP:NPOL, it's not the end as the subject can still pass WP:GNG. Now if it passes WP:NPOL then we are almost safe.
WP:Notability#Events: In some cases, notability of a controversial entity (such as a book) could arise either because the entity itself was notable, or because the controversy was notable as an event—both need considering.
She isn't notable as a person ("entity") for a WP:BLP. I'm using WP:NPOL as the baseline as you said. You haven't given other reasons on how she, as a person, might be notable for a BLP, aside from the coverage of the controversy on her identity. Hence WP:BLP1E.
But I clearly said she is notable for the above event. Or to put it better: the controversy around her identity is notable. The event passes WP:GNG. We can write an article on that, but NOT a BLP.
It's not a question of her humanity either. Again, we know nothing about her that is verifiable to pass the policies on WP:BLP. How is that difficult to understand? Everything is disputed. And that will remain the case until the investigation is finished, and then maybe we can write about whoever she actually is, where she was actually born, who her actual parents are, and so on.
No one is suggesting deletion either. WP:BATHWATER. We barely need to do any changes to the existing article, aside from rewording the lead and maybe removing the BLP infobox. Everything else can remain as is. The only thing it has to be right now, is not be a BLP.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL10:38, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also just to avoid confusion: I do not have exactly the same position as Hariboneagle927. We both agree that coverage of Guo should not be a BLP. But I don't agree on merging the controversy of her identity with the Bamban raids and the criminal activities of the Hongsheng firm. That may be where it started, but as I and all the opposes have said, the question of her identity is now a different scope from just POGO crimes. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL10:42, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (1) "2023–2024 Bamban raids" is a completely different topic, (2) Alice Guo has enough information and notability for Wikipedia to warrant having an article on her, we don't need to lump her in with the Bamban raids, because we don't know if all the controversy surrounding her is just POGO stuff or if it goes much deeper. A diehard editor (talk | edits) 12:29, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - for the same reasons as above. Guo is now facing separate issues related to her citizenship and birth certificate, and the Bamban raids are an entirely unrelated matter. —doclys (❀)18:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: the question of her citizenship, alleged links to criminals are all tangentially linked to the initial POGO controversy. She was alleged to be a Chinese who was planted as a Filipino citizenship, get elected to public office to enable the relevant POGO hub to set up shop in the first place. Imo to say these are separate issues is inaccurate hence the original suggested title. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:03, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Alice Guo edit on senate dignity now supported by citation which I forgot[edit]
My edit on Alice Guo states: "On May 26, 2024, Filipino-Chinese activist and academic Teresita Ang See stressed that the Senate investigation into Guo had been diverted from its main subject of POGOs into a "ridiculous tear-jerker 'zarzuela'" that "reflects badly on the dignity of the Senate".; but thereafter, I received a message in my talk page: Please refrain from inserting unsubstantiated wording, commentary and editorializing as you did in Alice Guo. You edits have been partially reverted for being unconstructive. Future insertions of similar content will be met with stronger sanctions. Thank you; therefore I edited adding the citation to support that "reflects badly on the dignity of the Senate": Ang See decries Senate focus on Guo : "“This kind of witch hunt and personal attacks are way below decency and reflects badly on the dignity of the Senate,” Ang See; meaning therefore: casting aspersion on the Senate as a political institution, which is a legal term or phrase often used in Court decisions, rulings; tarnishing the image of the Senate, another synonym phrase for that, and my edit = that "reflects badly on the dignity of the Senate", very sincerely very sincerely yours Valenzuela400 (talk) 05:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]
@Valenzuela400 Maybe just dont include it, the article does not need it, if you think otherwise, than say that Ang See hates Guo or summarize it.
She is pretty controversial in the Philippines, some people regard her as a Chinese person, some people regard her as a Filipino, people can edit the article saying "Alice Guo is a Chinese person" or vice-versa. The article can be a breeding ground for vandalism regarding the news. TheNuggeteer (talk) 13:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reverted it. The same documents mentioned that she was born in August 1990. How was she able to reach 13 years if she arrived in the country in January 2003??? Borgenland (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alice Guo, or Guo Hua Ping, was born on August 31, 1990. Not on July 12, 1986. It was confirmed by the NBI. It is also a match for the fingerprint of the same person.