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November 2019

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SamHolt6 I believed I cleared up any claims of original research. If you see anything I missed, please let me know. Everything in this article came from a verified source. If I missed a citation, that is on me. Ubiquitouslarry (talk) 14:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC) MurielMary Lucy Guo’s Thiel Fellowship has coverage in the Wired article with an accompanying video. Her involvement with Scale Ai is documented in the Marie Claire article. Lucy’s side projects have all received coverage as well. She is a software engineer and designer, not just an investor or business woman. The projects she has been a part of would not have succeeded without her direct contributions. Please let me know what you feel is missing in my claim for her notability. Ubiquitouslarry (talk) 14:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be plenty of sources

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Peaceray (talk) 18:47, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New York Post

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The sentence "She was described by the New York Post in 2022 as Miami's number one party girl.[1][2]" violates WP:BLP, WP:NYPOST, and WP:DECIDER. It's a made-up clickbait sensationalist headline, not backed up by any quotations or sources. The article only mentions one single party, and the text never mentions "Miami's number one party girl" or anyone saying that. The only thing the El Pais says is "Guo is a well-known socialite and neighbor of celebrities like David Beckham, and was dubbed 'Miami’s number one party girl' by the New York Post.", which therefore again is a violation of WP:NYPOST, WP:DECIDER, and hence also WP:BLP.

The sentence has been removed twice [1], [2]; but keeps being replaced.

I am going to remove the sentence again. Please avoid replacing it without discussing here on the talkpage. 107.127.4.66 (talk) 01:20, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Powers, Jacquelynn (2022-05-21). "How Lucy Guo conquered tech and became Miami's No. 1 party girl". The New York Post. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  2. ^ Megía, Carlos (2022-06-10). "Alexandr Wang is the new youngest self-made billionaire". EL PAÍS English. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
El Pais has repeated the claim, therefore WP:NYPOST is not applicable since El Pais is a reliable source which passes WP:BLP effectively sanitizing it for our verification. 171.238.182.87 (talk) 06:32, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

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I work with the article subject, Lucy Guo, I thus have a COI. I'd like to request impartial editors to consider the following changes:

1. Please add the following paragraph to the Career section, after the 2018 "Apply to Date" paragraph:

In 2019, she launched Backend Capital,[1] originally called Backend Ventures,[2] a venture capital firm that primarily funds early-stage engineering startups.[3] The firm has funded startups such as the fintech company Ramp.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Who is Lucy Guo? Meet the programmer who surpassed Taylor Swift's billion-dollar fortune". MSN. April 28, 2025. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Rachyl. "Exclusive: 29-year-old self-made millionaire Lucy Guo follows up her unicorn Scale AI with a $40 million Series A for new creator economy venture, Passes". Fortune. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  3. ^ a b Thier, Jane. "Multimillionaire Lucy Guo's only regret: Investing in 'every startup that's gone to zero'". Fortune Europe. Retrieved 2025-03-17.

2. First sentence of the Career section: Please replace "After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon," with "After receiving her Thiel Fellowship,".

3. Career section, first sentence of the 2022 paragraph: Please replace that sentence and its citations with "In 2022, Guo founded Passes, a social platform that allows creators to post exclusive content available only to paid subscribers.[1]" Reason: (A) None of the existing citations on the existing claim mention anything about "using connections from parties she attended". (B) Passes does not allow nudity or sexual content (citation from Variety: [10]), so it is not a competitor of OnlyFans, which is widely known for pornography.

  1. ^ Harmon, Grace (March 25, 2024). "Passes: Bypassing the Brands". Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved May 30, 2025.

4. Personal life section: At the top of the section, please add the following as a separate paragraph:

As of 2024, Guo lives in Los Angeles.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Bowman, Wendy (2024-09-20). "A 29-Year-Old Tech Tycoon Snaps Up a $4.2 Million Designer Abode in L.A." Robb Report. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  2. ^ Vaziri, Aidin (April 23, 2025). "Lucy Guo on surpassing Taylor Swift, building a billion-dollar fortune". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  3. ^ "LA500 2024: Lucy Guo". Los Angeles Business Journal. June 3, 2024. Retrieved May 30, 2025.

Thank you. A.Blake.333 (talk) 20:38, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Edited your second request to better reflect the source. PK650 (talk) 23:45, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Hi PK650, could you please look at request #3, which seems to have been overlooked? It replaces an outright WP:BLP violation as what it replaces does not match the citations and as such, since what it replaces is false and negative, appears to be a clear case of WP:BLPREMOVE. Thank you. A.Blake.333 (talk) 23:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I must've missed it. I reviewed the sources and you are correct, they do not mention parties at all. PK650 (talk) 09:54, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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