Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia

Release
With the book officially out in English today, am I right to assume it's safe to add information from it to articles? ReignTG (talk) 21:42, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's officially part of the English canon now. TriforceTony (talk) 21:47, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Canon
How much of this book can we actually take to be canon? Eiji Aonuma and the others don’t appear to have been as involved in the development of this book as they were in the others. Some of it even appears to contradict what they have said in the past. The change to the timeline was confirmed as canon on the official website, but the rest is questionable. Toolen22 (talk) 15:56, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Except for extraneous bits, such as the SS - manga and obvious errors, everything in The Goddess Collection are canonical even if they were not necessarily written by Aonuma. They were created as a series of books to elucidate the canon and were directly supervised by Nintendo (also one of the writers credited for  has been with Nintendo for at least 30 years).
 * As a general principle, official statements from Nintendo employees are considered canon unless they contradict in-game evidence. The Goddess Collection, due to their relationship to the timeline, are considered on-par with game canon and so supersede any previous evidence provided in the games. TriforceTony (talk) 17:16, 5 September 2018 (UTC)