There have been many questions about the eligibility criteria for critics' lists, so I thought I should start a new thread solely about this topic.
In the past when all critics lists were in print, it was no problem to include all of them. But with the increasing number of music webzines/blogs (and seemingly also an increasing interest in making best of lists) it is necessary to use some eligibility criteria to limit the number of lists and to keep focus on the more important sources. These are the current criteria, although they are not set in stone.
1. If it's a music site only with several contributors, the Alexa site ranking is <1,000,000 and the number of sites linking in is >100 then it should be eligible.
2. If none of these are fulfilled then the list is not eligible.
3. When one or two of them are fulfilled it's a grey zone where the decision has to be made case by case.