Talk: Zelda Timeline

Overhaul

While I'm not going to be posting on the forums much over the next few weeks (possibly the next two months, social life pending), I've been taking the time to overhaul the Wiki to reflect the recent relevations. PIE and I will be sure to keep one another accountable. --Lex

w00t. This is going to go much faster than I originally anticipated. I'm pretty sure DP's entered some sort of drug induced hyper-editor state; he's making updates faster than I can jump from page to page --PIE

That was actually probably me, not logged in. But yeah. Time to go crazy. :D I think we should scrap the "Number of Timelines" page, and focus on the "Hylian Cosmology" page instead, no? --Lex

A number of the "Popular Timeline" variants have grown redundant. I'd like to just cut them completely, but it'd be good to have an all-clear on that. --Lex

Paradigm Shift

Well, a large ammount of the content of this article series become outdated yesterday when Aonuma officially folded TP into the (developer confirmed) second timeline of the OOT arc. Edits will likely be slow in coming (my edits anyway), so you'll either have to hit the forums or live with the knowledge of yesterday...

This is absolutely amazing, by the way. --PIE

Vandalism

Both this page and the main article were totally removed last night, replaced with "hi". Second time I've fixed vandalism on the page, but I still don't know what to do or how to report it. Help?! --PIE

Well, as for what to do, the most important thing is to fix the vandalism, and you have done that. Fortunately, the Wiki saves all the revisions for us and you didn't lose any work (I know you've spent a ton of time working on this stuff). As for how to report it, I don't believe there is a report feature of any kind. This Talk page is probably the most effective way. I'll talk with Jason about what else can be done. --Sheik-Yumil1988 22:59, 5 December 2006 (CST)

Well, we could also protect the page... but if the person is registered, they could edit it. So, you timeline theorists would have to register in order to edit it. - James

What could possibly motivate a person to make 3 consecutive attacks on a page? Meh, fixed this weekend's bit of vandalism, and I'm not keen or doing so again. How do you protect a page on media-wiki? --PIE

Nintendo's Official Timeline

A while back, did not Nintendo release an official timeline in a story form? It was on the official page, but has since vanished due to newer games coming out. I have it saved if anybody wants to see it...

Commonly called the "NoA order" it can be found online at:

http://www.zeldalegends.net/files/articles/article24/oldversion.txt

It is complete up to the release of tWW (which caused a paradine shift in theorising, away from debate on the number of links and towrds debate on the number of timelines) and was quite influential at the time of its release. From a modern perspective, the principles of the theory are solid in every regard except its interesting placement of Link's Awakening, and are listed on the Timeline Principles page. The more creative aspects of the theory (ie the creation of Termina) are cool to read but considered non canonical.--PIE

Featrued Article

What? TP run off with some other encyclopedia? Not such a "masterpeice" any more, is it? Yeah, we knew you'd come crawling back...

Seriously Jason, this is crazy cool. Thank you so very much, we're astounded.
But ach! All the pressure. So much yet to be done! Back to work!--PIE

Wha?!?!

Could we possibly not abbreviate the game names? Not everyone knows what they mean. I don't know what they mean and I'm a good Zelda Fan. --Dinoshaur 04:40, 24 December 2006 (CST)

Good point, timeline jargon comes easy to some, but the casual reader really should have a guide... O.K., threw up a quick fix. It needs to be wiki'd but I'm out of time. --PIE

I think what he meant was to replace the instances of jargon in the page with the full names. I tried to read it last night, and I was confused nearly the whole time. --74.73.243.146 18:59, 21 January 2007 (CST)

Hmmm, This is a problem. To replace Acronym's with game names causes an insave ammount of clutter in the "popular lines" section. Here's a question: To those who have difficulty with the acronyms, do you actually have a base idea of each game, or are you generally unfamiliar with the early parts of the series? Will "Adventure of Link" truly mean anything more to you than "AoL"?--PIE

I think that's an unfair question, I've been playing Zelda from square one, and know all the abbreviations etcetera, but to assume that someone doesn't know anything about a game just because they find acronyms difficult is a rather ignorant thing to do, especially when one considers that recently, Nintendo rereleased the original Zelda games in the Classic NES series. But hey, that's just me.--User:Narpa

Question

I'm not sure if this is the place to discuss the actual ideas expressed in the page or not, but why would anyone ever assume that there were multiple timelines in the Legend of Zelda series. In the Ocarina of Time, Ganon is slain by Adult Link in the future, isn't he? So doesn't it just make sense then that all the evil Ganon does is still done and he exists there in those seven years Link slept? If Ganon was slain in the Adult Link time, then, he still lives in Child Link's day, doesn't he? Wouldn't that mean the timelines were still one and the same?

Overthinking It

If you ask me, fans are overthinking it. I was only introduced to the idea of the stories actually fitting together in recent years by a friend of mine, who tried to map out some sort of geneology showing that each Link and Zelda were descendants of other Links and Zeldas. It seemed sort of convoluted, unnecessary and a really far stretch to me. I always assumed it was the same deal as Mario (as its the same creator, same company) that the characters are merely re-envisioned and reinvented with each game (except for games that obviously fit together, like say Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask). -- A Passing Gamer.