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Although Tommy may eventually become much like the comic book Merlyn, his father (also with the surname Merlyn) is, as of the Christmas episode, confirmed to be an expert archer, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and able to take down a much younger adversary that is incredibly well trained and maintained. Basically, would it be right to focus the 'Arrow' section on Malcolm, mentioning Tommy as an aside? Malcolm seems a far closer counterpart than his son. 86.159.58.82 ( talk) 03:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I've remved some info from the 'In other media' section where it concerns the Arrow tv series. We don't wikilink Starling City to Star City (at least, not without citations we don't) and we don't go into excessive detail. As Tommy Merlyn is dead (or very, very sleepy) and Malcolm seems close to joining him, I think we may have been gaslighted on this. I think we need to keep the tv series mention of Merlyn brief and concise. We don't need plot details. - Jack Sebastian ( talk) 17:21, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
This page says that "Malcolm Merlyn" redirects here, but it redirects to the TV series. -- Beardo ( talk) 04:11, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
The section about Malcolm Merlyn and his family should split into a separate article, since the length is starting to be too long.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 22:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Malcolm and Tommy Merlyn are two separate characters in Arrow and to keep information separated, both characters should get their own respective character pages and this pages should have links to their respective pages instead. The idea to make a "Merlyn (Arrow)" pages wouldn't work as there would eventually be too much written between them as Tommy was a main character and Malcolm has been a recurring, then guest, and soon to be main character and it would be crammed with information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Captian Griggs ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
I've reverted - twice now - the addition of Tommy Merlyn and Vortigern to aliases to the article. Iirc, the term Dark Archer and Vortigern were used in the Smallville tv series of a few years back. As far as I know, the two series do not share part of a shared universe, so the terms from one are not portable in the other. Perhaps some RS reviewer (or the showrunners themselves) have connected the two. Outside of that, we cannot have them in the same article. - Jack Sebastian ( talk) 21:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
So, it's happening again. I thought this was settled? It is weird to present external information as though it constituted part of the narrative of the show. Zythe ( talk) 23:36, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
I think that the arrowverse character is sufficently different and notable that he deserves his own page. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 03:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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Although Tommy may eventually become much like the comic book Merlyn, his father (also with the surname Merlyn) is, as of the Christmas episode, confirmed to be an expert archer, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and able to take down a much younger adversary that is incredibly well trained and maintained. Basically, would it be right to focus the 'Arrow' section on Malcolm, mentioning Tommy as an aside? Malcolm seems a far closer counterpart than his son. 86.159.58.82 ( talk) 03:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I've remved some info from the 'In other media' section where it concerns the Arrow tv series. We don't wikilink Starling City to Star City (at least, not without citations we don't) and we don't go into excessive detail. As Tommy Merlyn is dead (or very, very sleepy) and Malcolm seems close to joining him, I think we may have been gaslighted on this. I think we need to keep the tv series mention of Merlyn brief and concise. We don't need plot details. - Jack Sebastian ( talk) 17:21, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
This page says that "Malcolm Merlyn" redirects here, but it redirects to the TV series. -- Beardo ( talk) 04:11, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
The section about Malcolm Merlyn and his family should split into a separate article, since the length is starting to be too long.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 22:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Malcolm and Tommy Merlyn are two separate characters in Arrow and to keep information separated, both characters should get their own respective character pages and this pages should have links to their respective pages instead. The idea to make a "Merlyn (Arrow)" pages wouldn't work as there would eventually be too much written between them as Tommy was a main character and Malcolm has been a recurring, then guest, and soon to be main character and it would be crammed with information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Captian Griggs ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
I've reverted - twice now - the addition of Tommy Merlyn and Vortigern to aliases to the article. Iirc, the term Dark Archer and Vortigern were used in the Smallville tv series of a few years back. As far as I know, the two series do not share part of a shared universe, so the terms from one are not portable in the other. Perhaps some RS reviewer (or the showrunners themselves) have connected the two. Outside of that, we cannot have them in the same article. - Jack Sebastian ( talk) 21:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
So, it's happening again. I thought this was settled? It is weird to present external information as though it constituted part of the narrative of the show. Zythe ( talk) 23:36, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
I think that the arrowverse character is sufficently different and notable that he deserves his own page. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 03:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)