Wokistan said:
Okay but if it was later said they're different, then they're different. Even if they were the same dude there's never a point where he has everything at once, and you'd still be inventing a character in indexing it as if there is.
Nintendo officially composited Link in both the website and Hyrule Encyclopedia. I've even posted a picture of the two pages dedicated to just "Link" in general, and there are no pages dedicated to singular Links. Basically:
Nintendo: Okay, we now created this character called Link who's the protagonist of the Zelda series just like Mario is the protagonist of the Super Mario series.
VSBW: Protagonist
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N: What do you mean?
VSBW: You see, they're all reincarnation of the same character, not the SAME character
N: What's even the difference? Link is the Hero of Hyrule that will always reincarnate to save the world from evil. We made every Link identical in aspect exactly to show that he's still the same person.
VSBW: Yeah, but a single Link who's just every other Link doesn't exist, so we're just going to assume they're all different people.
N: Well, they still share the same soul, the "Spirit of the Hero", that's enough, isn't it? Oh well, anyway, here, take a look to our website, we made a single page for Link to show how there's a single protagonist to the Zelda series.
VSBW: As if, you just made it to save time, not because you really think all Links are the same
N: Okay, I'll make a book, no, an Encyclopedia, it will contain every single item in the Zelda series, it analyzes how the geography of Hyrule evolved, hell, it will even explain how the marine biology of Hyrule evolved over the ages because yes, and we're still going to give Link a single section without considering his incarnations because he IS ALWAYS THE SAME CHARACTER.
VSBW:... But it never showcases in a game every single one of his abilities over his 30 years of history, so we cannot make a page for him just because you canonized Composite Link.
N: If that's the problem then why are you so fixated on Link instead of, I dunno, Mario, Kirby or others?
VSBW: Because Link is not the same character in his games, duh
N: *bangs its head on a wall wondering how it came to this*