Talk:History of the Zelda Timeline/Timeline Quotes

TSA's Comments
Are we to include those, or no? If he indeed speaks truth, we now have remarkable insight as what the creators will permit themselves to do with respect to the creative process (i.e., whether or not they are above blatant retcons). -- Lex

A Number of Good reasons
The Timeline Article is huge and cluttered. Even after the large ammount of trimming done recently, its still tiwce as big as any other article on the site, and adding the content intended for this page will simply make things worse. More than any other page in its series, this one can be a resource to timeline theorists. Very often, they are completely unable to find a quote they are certain they have heard before, even after hours of searching (until it appears, 2 weeks laterm whle searching for a completely unrelated statement)

This article promots cleanliness and effeciency, and will soon be growing...

Is This Article Really Necessary?
We have a huge Zelda Timeline article. Why do we need a second explaining what a quote is? Why not just include that information in the existing article? --Yumil 16:35, 22 November 2006 (CST)

rewrite, organizeing, or delete. i dont care witch.
may i have your opinion?Dragonstetraforce 21:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't we include the japanese quote?
You know, the one where Miyamoto says Triforce of the Gods comes ater OoT and before LoZ and AoL.

A Link to the Past Quote
I saw that the source of this links to Zelda Legends but it is stated that it comes from the Issue #116 of Nintendo Power on Zelda Wiki. Problem is, is that it isn't in issue #116 of Nintendo Power. The source that Zelda Legends originally links to doesn't exist. Was wondering where this quote originally came from and what the original source is. Since Issue #116 of Nintendo Power certainly isn't it.

You can find it at web archive at Zelda64.com, but still references this Nintendo Power issue that doesn't have that interview. http://web.archive.org/web/19990914125251/www.zelda64.com/hr_frameset.asp?cue= Mases 01:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

A condensed version of the interview found at the old zelda.com is in the "bonus issue" of volume 116. Certain parts of the interview were taken out, including the timeline part, to make way for other, newer parts of the interview, such as Miyamoto talking about Earthbound 64 and Metroid 64. Really, though, someone should change the source for this quote. For reference, not only is it up at an archive of the old zelda.com, but it's also still at the Miyamoto Shrine: http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/111998.shtml --Jarsh 23:35, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Organization: game order
Why is this organization of the games? TP, WW, TMC/FS/FSA, PH, OoT, ALttP?? I've changed this, but this article still needs a better a better organization. Jeangabin 12:05, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

About Four Swords text..
"Problems quickly arose with the release of Four Swords Adventures, which, simultaneously, was quite obviously the sequel to FS, and almost certainly could not take place before Ocarina of Time. Once again, it seemed game canon was challenging developer quotes."

... Why / how did we reach this conclusion? LinkTheLefty 15:38, 25 May 2011 (EDT)
 * Again, let me reiterate that many of these pages are out of date, as they were last legitimately edited even as long as 2 years ago. Don't worry, we're updating these in time - if you see anything that's a bit questionable like this, feel free to change it, as long as it stays as rooted in supportive material as possible. Even though these are theory pages, they are going to be reorganized with a focus on factual statements instead of heavy speculation. Good catch, and sorry about that! :( 19:43, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

百数年
That does not mean "several hundred years". It means what the Hylia translated, i.e., ~100 years. Where is this claim from? I found someone on zeldadungeon making that claim, but it's similarly uninformed (and God, I really hope this claim hasn't gotten wide-ranging spread).

examples of actual use of the phrase:

> 韓国政府の今回の決定は、どうしても潜在的な経済的利益を念頭においたものと見えるのだが、これは正に、百数年前、第一次世界大戦の悲劇をもたらした国際武器商人の戦略に似ている.

-- referring to World War I, famous for not being several centuries ago.

> この相矛盾した状態を抱えながら、モダニズム芸術は、すでに百数年の月日を経た.

-- referring to modernist art, named for its unique attribute of not being several centuries old.

That's not even how numbers are constructed in Japanese! Modifiers of the hundred would be before the hyaku kanji, not after it. 22:07, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know Japanese. Google Translate though, translates these characters as "Hundreds of years". Zeldafan1982 (talk) 23:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, then google translate is wrong. It's a rare phrase, yes, but in both of the contexts I was able to find, it obviously means ~100 years. Furthermore, the basic construction of Japanese numbers would require it to mean ~100 years. 14:50, 11 March 2022 (UTC)