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 Skyward Sword manga and obvious errors, everything in The Goddess Collection (Hyrule Historia, Art & Artifacts, Encyclopedia) 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 Encyclopedia 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)
Verification
As someone who hasn't read the book, I came across a few claims that it was written by the staff of a fan magazine who admitted to taking liberties with the source material and just making a bunch of stuff up. Is this true, and if so, why are we accepting it as canon anyway? Whisperstar13 (talk) 02:05, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- I haven't heard of those claims and we can't consider them reliable on hearsay alone. Even if the canon established in Encyclopedia were disloyal fabrications they're still canon by virtue of being published on the will of the developers. TriforceTony (talk) 02:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- It's brought up here. Something about a staff page where it's revealed Nintendo took more of a "counseling" role to the magazine staff who actually did the writing. Maybe someone who has a copy of the book should verify this. The article should be updated to show who actually authored the book, at the very least. Whisperstar13 (talk) 02:16, 2 November 2018 (UTC)