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| type = website
| shortcut = WP:METALLUM
| status = d
| last = 2025
| domain1 = metal-archives.com
| rfc = [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 470#Deprecate Encyclopaedia Metallum|Rfc]]
| rfcdate = 2025
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== Summary ==
''Encyclopaedia Metallum'' was deprecated by unanimous consensus in the 2025 RfC as a site rife with [[WP:UGC|user-generated content]] and thus no hope of reliability.
== Excerpt ==
{{hatnote|Excerpt from the lead of [[Encyclopaedia Metallum]]:}}
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== Discussions ==
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=== Links ===
==== RSN ====
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 32#www.spirit-of-metal.com]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 207#www.metal-archives.com]]
==== Other ====
* [[Talk:Encyclopaedia Metallum#Source]]
=== Recency ===
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=== Rfcs ===
# 2025 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 470#Deprecate Encyclopaedia Metallum|Rfc]]
==Notes==
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==References==
== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-d" id="Encyclopaedia Metallum"
| ''[[Encyclopaedia Metallum]]'' (''Metal Archives'', ''MA'') {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:METALLUM}}
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|d}}
| {{rsnl|470|Deprecate Encyclopaedia Metallum|2025|rfc=y}}
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2025|stale=n}}
| ''Encyclopaedia Metallum'' was deprecated by unanimous consensus in the 2025 RfC as a site rife with [[WP:UGC|user-generated content]] and thus no hope of reliability.
| {{WP:RSPUSES|metal-archives.com}}
|}