Hello! It is apparently the first day of the Obon Festival (unless I made a horrible mistake somewhere) and, thus, a new update.
As a side-note, I planned to create this update two days ago during 山の日 but then forgot about it. Not that it matters that much.

It did take a while to figure out what to make the banner and, I’ll be honest: not my best work, but it’ll do.

• Added small banner images for many of the media articles that lacked them.
• Added a few regular banners for the media article pages.

• Allison
• Better than Adventure
• The Big Short
• Half-Life
• Raspberry Flavoured
• Rebelové
• Red
• What is the source of ‘Generic’ Fantasy?
• SIGNAL LOST
• Silent Hill
• Star Wars
• Starcraft
• Terminator
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Tolkien's Legendarium
• TRON
• tron.os
• Silent Non-Silent Protagonist
• Worldbuilding Rant: or why everything sucks
• The Legend of Zelda

The total article count previously was 236 and, now, there are 250 listed on the main page. Not that many, but still.
Of those, I’d say I put the most effort into the Zelda article, as I’m currently going thru some Zelda media.

Previously, I stated that I started prioritizing just adding new articles even if I don’t create images for them or even if they aren’t super well-thought-out…well, I’ve made another bold decision: I will start writing about stuff that I haven’t actually gone thru.

To clarify a little by what I mean, I’ll just point to World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness as two examples that pre-date this decision. They don’t include any reviews and are pretty bare-bones, but I still consider them relevant enough to mention.
There are a few things I’ve written about that fall into the same category and, since I’m the boss, I may as well start to include those on the public wiki as well.

I’ll also note that there is a pretty big backlog that I’m gradually going thru, just that it’ll take a while to…get thru.

I was thinking recently about how to fix the Zelda timeline and, well…yeah.
One thing I was thinking about was how to make it all fit together without breaking anything. I concluded that you’d have to make story changes to accommodate all the information present.

That said…and I think I might add this to the article itself: maybe the official timeline isn’t that bad. Functionally, it manages to unite multiple disparate games into a single unified continuity…and without hitting too many issues in the process. That’s impressive in a way…though I’m not fully convinced it’s without issue – those issues are merely ignored by the fanbase (if they notice them).

Something that I’ve started to wonder is how many people making video essays and retrospectives about Zelda have actually played the games they’re talking about. Granted…I haven’t, but I’m not really pretending that I have.
I’m saying this because, whenever someone talks about Twilight Princess (for example), I get the impression they and I played two different games. I may or may not elaborate on that further.

While browsing the Zeldawiki recently, I came to the conclusion that it’s not being edited well. Now, I complain about some of that on the Zelda article, but I’ll repeat myself: why is the wiki treating Zelda as one character? Zelda is multiple characters. It is beyond annoying to have just one article for all the Zeldas.
Like, I get why they’re doing it, but it doesn’t make it less stupid. It just makes the lives of readers harder.
Though I initially thought this was just the case for Zelda, Link and maybe Ganon…I’ve since learned that it applies to way more of the characters – and it applies inconsistently.
For example: Anju’s page lists Anju from Majora’s Mask and The Minish Cap…despite those being completely unrelated characters. Meanwhile, Cucco Lady has her own page…despite her being closer to the Anju from The Minish Cap.
You could blame one of two entities for this: Nintendo for re-using characters across games or the wiki for presenting these disparate characters as the same character.

Now…I have a bunch of issues like this with fan wikis run online. Most of them are written in boring wiki speak which is a terrible choice, though I can’t articulate why right now. But one reason is: why would I read this over Wikipedia in that case?
There are a few other problems like them going into too much detail, not including enough fanon stuff (specifically fan theories and analysis; kinda like what Tolkiengateway does) and…I can’t think of anything else right now.