Talk:List of Premier League players with 500 or more appearances

Page merger?
There's another page called 'List of Premier League players' which lists all PL players with 300+ appearances. Shouldn't these two be merged? The Raincloud Kid (talk) 15:02, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * They're basically about the same thing. This article is about players with 500 appearances and the other one is about players with 300 and more. I think the 300 one should be deleted because it's outdated and unnecessary because this current article exists. Maybe this one could use expansion with the apps, goals, year and positions but I wouldn't recommend cleaning up the "300" article since it might not pass WP:NOTSTAT and "500" has better sources, content and look. I also think the title should be changed to something else since "List of Premier League players with 500 or more appearances" implies the article could include Premier League players who have appearances outside the Premier League. Maybe "List of players with 500 or more appearances in the Premier League" would be better? Thoughts?    King And God  12:49, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


 * An argument could be made about keeping the other list, but expanding to include all players who made at least one appearance and therefore actually be representative of its title; similar to how the baseball side of Wikipedia has MLB players separately listed in alphabetical order. Obviously the 500+ list should be kept due to the fact that is an accomplishment that only 12 players have done in the 25+ year history. If having only 1 appearance is too low or too much of an undertaking, I imagine 10 appearances would be a good starting point. Yousou (Complain) 14:51, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree, this page should probably be renamed for clarity, and I don't really see the benefit of the other page existing at all. 500 appearances does seem more of a noteworthy achievement than 300, and given the misleading title of the other page, I can't think why it would need to exist. My personal choice would be to merge the pages into one titled something like your idea, "List of players with 500 or more appearances in the Premier League", or simply delete the List of Premier League players article as it doesn't really serve a purpose in its current form. The Raincloud Kid (talk) 09:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Total top division appearances
For historical context, this page at weltfussball shows total appearances for the English top division (Football League Division One up to 1992 and the Premier League thereafter). I haven't included this as a source in the article as I'm not convinced of the site's overall reliability as a source, so I used Sky as a static source instead when mentioning Barry's position in all-time top division appearances. --Jameboy (talk) 11:50, 23 May 2018 (UTC)