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Once upon a time there were three Zelda-based wikis: Zeldawiki.org (independent), Zeldapedia (wikia), and ZeldaDungeon.net (independent and laid back). They were all fairly decent, but Zeldawiki was the best, though it had a few small problems. At the very least, the userbase knew to not trust the fanfic-mixed Zelda.com. One day, Zeldawiki and a few other Nintendo-based wikis founded some group called NIWA, with the basic rule being that it was for indy Nintendo wikis. And all was well barring the few problems mentioned. Those included over-citation of in-game material and lack of guidebook citations, not allowing IP edits, over-reliance on the concept of "canon," and inconsistently basing things off "English name canon" despite the creators of all they considered "canon" being Japanese. | Once upon a time there were three Zelda-based wikis: Zeldawiki.org (independent), Zeldapedia (wikia), and ZeldaDungeon.net (independent and laid back). They were all fairly decent, but Zeldawiki was the best, though it had a few small problems. At the very least, the userbase knew to not trust the fanfic-mixed Zelda.com. One day, Zeldawiki and a few other Nintendo-based wikis founded some group called NIWA, with the basic rule being that it was for indy Nintendo wikis. And all was well barring the few problems mentioned. Those included over-citation of in-game material and lack of guidebook citations, not allowing IP edits, over-reliance on the concept of "canon," and inconsistently basing things off "English name canon" despite the creators of all they considered "canon" being Japanese. | ||
Eventually, things turned sour. Fairly close to each other, Zeldawiki stopped being independent as it was sold to an incompetent corporate crapheap called "Gamepedia," ''and'' the incompetents at Dork Hores comics decided to use wikis when translating guidebooks for literally no other reason than laziness, ignoring conjecture warnings and alternate language warnings. In spite of how years prior they | Eventually, things turned sour. Fairly close to each other, Zeldawiki stopped being independent as it was sold to an incompetent corporate crapheap called "Gamepedia," ''and'' the incompetents at Dork Hores comics decided to use wikis when translating guidebooks for literally no other reason than laziness, ignoring conjecture warnings and alternate language warnings. In spite of how years prior they new to not trust everything Zelda.com said, this new Zeldawiki embraced the incompetently-written books and treated them as gospel truth despite how blatant it was that names they had invented/misinterpreted were in there, such as inexplicably calling the ''Oracle of Ages'' iteration of ???? "Hand" as a proper noun, as well as "Odolwa's Insect Minions." They then kept going down this rabbit hole and made such poor choices as haphazardly splitting color variants for enemies, making worthless "term" templates, attempting to transclude "translation" pages while seemingly purposefully breaking said pages, having hundreds of bot-created articles that basically say "this thing is a thing," and introducing gimmicky "challenges" that maybe three edits at most are given to. Additionally, Zeldapedia merged with them, basically making them wikia/FANDOM themselves, and as such violating the core rule of NIWA. | ||
The "Hand" thing was my breaking point. How ''blatant'' and ''half-baked'' it all was. I decided ''something'' needed to be done, so I basically pestered the issue for a little while and bip-bop-boop, this wiki was born. This wiki was made to look at things from an objective standpoint, not mix in theories, and not mix in self-citation. Despite what some have said, Nintendo's "involvement" with Zelda Encyclopedia was minimal at most, and the fact that both Cadence and Link's Awakening Switch have since contradicted it on multiple levels proves that Nintendo doesn't give a crap about it or what it says. There is no "canon." There is continuity, yes, but the Zelda games are oft so self-contained and far apart from each other time-wise that attempting to apply a full consistent "canon" to its in-universe history without leaving major holes cannot be done, and claiming that something is "less canon" than something else is similarly stupid. "Metroid" has a canon. It stars one singular character over a relatively short timespan. "Zelda" does not have this. It is multiple iterations of a character across millennia. Basically, continuity exists, but not everything connects to every other thing. | The "Hand" thing was my breaking point. How ''blatant'' and ''half-baked'' it all was. I decided ''something'' needed to be done, so I basically pestered the issue for a little while and bip-bop-boop, this wiki was born. This wiki was made to look at things from an objective standpoint, not mix in theories, and not mix in self-citation. Despite what some have said, Nintendo's "involvement" with Zelda Encyclopedia was minimal at most, and the fact that both Cadence and Link's Awakening Switch have since contradicted it on multiple levels proves that Nintendo doesn't give a crap about it or what it says. There is no "canon." There is continuity, yes, but the Zelda games are oft so self-contained and far apart from each other time-wise that attempting to apply a full consistent "canon" to its in-universe history without leaving major holes cannot be done, and claiming that something is "less canon" than something else is similarly stupid. "Metroid" has a canon. It stars one singular character over a relatively short timespan. "Zelda" does not have this. It is multiple iterations of a character across millennia. Basically, continuity exists, but not everything connects to every other thing. |