The NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia

The NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia
A National Bitter Melon Council Internet Intervention, 2008
www.wikipedia.org

In this performance, the National Bitter Melon Council inserted a biography page about itself and the definition of BitterMelon as a vegetable and an artistic medium. As a result of this intervention, the National Bitter Melon Council page and our definition of Bitter Melon was deleted two days after they were uploaded to the WIkipedia site.  Pictured is documentation of the “proposed deletion” debate that occurred online, reflecting the confusion and instigation this art-and-everyday-life intervention project poses in a public setting

A few of the comments read:

“Non-notable organization for which the article reads like a (poorly written) advertisement.  The Organization’s website already has a link from Bitter Melon, which is good enough”

“The article almost sounds like the NBMC is an arts and cultural organization that uses the Bitter Melon as a metaphor, but reading it carefully it looks like a promotional organization.”

“Organization’s name gets only 152 Google hits, zero Google news hits. I’ve read the article and visited their website and I’m still not sure whether a Bitter Melon is a real thing or a metaphor.  Either way, this organization doesn’t seem that notable, and this looks a lot like spam.”

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