Thread:Merlinarthur/@comment-3481504-20140929171319/@comment-5674726-20141004105752

Again, strong bond is subjective.

I think that it'd be better to let the characters do the talking, in a sense.

For example, Merlin went from expressing his disbelief that Arthur could be the Once and Future King Kilgharrah spoke of on the grounds that he was an idiot, and grumbling about being his servant in early Season One to telling Arthur that he would be a great King and that he was happy to be his servant until the day he died in later seasons.

I think that this is a more powerful illustration of the strength of their friendship and how it developed than any subjective choice of adjective could be.

My concern is that, as the pages will be open to anybody to edit, we will end up with a situation where people are changing it to fit with their own view. We cannot back one poster's personal view over another's so it becomes a case of whoever has the last word dictates the tone of the article.

However if, for example, the article included an account of how Arthur followed Merlin to Ealdor to help save the village from Kanen and his gang, along with Hunith's quote about how Arthur cared a great deal for Merlin, and a poster deleted this, it would be reasonable for us to restore it as it was objective and relevant to the topic.