:::::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 cannot. 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. -