The result was No consensus. The nominator and subsequent participators here have presented a very strong case for deletion based on our relevant notability guideline for websites. However, some credence needs to be given to the availability of sources for a genre of music that historically does not get any mainstream media coverage, such as metal/death music. The "alexa ranking", or hit count, as cited by Evenfiel below, in this case, does garner some significance as being a high-traffic website for its fanbase. Looking at the concerns of the notability camp, and the ramifications/fallout of deleting this article as far as the List of online music databases, they balance themselves out to a firm "no consensus" to delete. (I'm not a vote counter by any means, but as an FYI, it came out in support of non-consensus closure, at 9D/8K. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC) reply
I'm aware that this nomination might make me very unpopular among my fellow metalheads on wikipedia but I do not believe the website qualifies as notable per wikipedia's guidelines on websites. The article currently asserts the website's high traffic as reported on alexa.com but the popularity of a website is not an acceptable criteria for notability. Many other websites attract higher traffic and hence are more popular but they do not merit an article page on wikipedia either: see, for instance mobile9.com which has a current traffic rank of 251 over the Encyclopaedia Metallum's 1099. The wikipedia guidelines on notability for websites provide three criterias: multiple non-trivial publication on independent works; receiving a well-known award; and being distributed via a medium independent of the site. Encyclopaedia Metallum does not fulfil any of these three criterias. Despite being around on wikipedia since early 2005, the article page does not and presumably has never asserted notability according to any of these criterias. I've spent a long time on google searching the internet for references to assert the website's notability but I was not able to find any. Hence, this nomination. -- Bardin ( talk) 06:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC) reply
The result was No consensus. The nominator and subsequent participators here have presented a very strong case for deletion based on our relevant notability guideline for websites. However, some credence needs to be given to the availability of sources for a genre of music that historically does not get any mainstream media coverage, such as metal/death music. The "alexa ranking", or hit count, as cited by Evenfiel below, in this case, does garner some significance as being a high-traffic website for its fanbase. Looking at the concerns of the notability camp, and the ramifications/fallout of deleting this article as far as the List of online music databases, they balance themselves out to a firm "no consensus" to delete. (I'm not a vote counter by any means, but as an FYI, it came out in support of non-consensus closure, at 9D/8K. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC) reply
I'm aware that this nomination might make me very unpopular among my fellow metalheads on wikipedia but I do not believe the website qualifies as notable per wikipedia's guidelines on websites. The article currently asserts the website's high traffic as reported on alexa.com but the popularity of a website is not an acceptable criteria for notability. Many other websites attract higher traffic and hence are more popular but they do not merit an article page on wikipedia either: see, for instance mobile9.com which has a current traffic rank of 251 over the Encyclopaedia Metallum's 1099. The wikipedia guidelines on notability for websites provide three criterias: multiple non-trivial publication on independent works; receiving a well-known award; and being distributed via a medium independent of the site. Encyclopaedia Metallum does not fulfil any of these three criterias. Despite being around on wikipedia since early 2005, the article page does not and presumably has never asserted notability according to any of these criterias. I've spent a long time on google searching the internet for references to assert the website's notability but I was not able to find any. Hence, this nomination. -- Bardin ( talk) 06:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC) reply