A few questions of clarfiication Bignole first when was the term Dark Archer coined in relation to the comic book character Myself I never heard the term before except maybe in passing the the Merlyn esque character Vortigern in Smallville I don t recall it ever being used before or since that one time As for sources the clear path is that if the source is crap we don t use it I had thought you already knew that I am not stating that we should should avoid better sources in favor of worse ones I believe that my point from the beginning has been that to date no source has explicitly identified one Merlyn or the other as the Merlyn from the comics If a source hasn t made that connection explicit connection then we can not And as Dark Archer doesn t appear to be a moniker of the comic book character ipso facto no such connection exists outside the imagination of at least one editor