Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-04-12 Races in The Legend of Zelda series

Who are the involved parties?
KrytenKoro and Delsait

What's going on?
KrytenKoro: I have put forward a source by Nintendo of America that calls Hylians "elf-like", along with two other minor sources that claim that they are "elf-like" or "based on elves". I have also provided excerpts from the pages on Elves in Mythology and in Middle-Earth that supports a correlation between the description of elves and the description of Hylians. Delsait claimed at first that elves were nothing like Hylians, and after some time, also that there was a bodyguard character named "The Elf" in the new Japanese Zelda game, according to a fan walkthrough of the foreign-language game. I asked for a screenshot verifying that the name of the character had been translated correctly, and Delsait pointed me to a claim at the bottom of the FAQ that claimed that the author had translated all of the bodyguard names correctly. I further tried to explain the difference between the name "Monyo" of the bodyguard and his title as "the elf", and that the type of symbol that the title "the elf" appeared as was important as to whether the title was official, a possible translation, or a descriptive invention by the author of the FAQ. I tried to discuss this on the talk-page first, to present my case for adding "elf-like", but when it seemed to me that the sources and articles were being completely ignored, as well as my requests for verification, I went ahead and added in the edit, later with a reference to the NOA source, that "Hylians are a human, elf-like race...". Delsait called it vandalism and continuosly reverts it, even though I continue to provide links and excerpts that I believe support my edit.KrytenKoro 23:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Delsait:

What would you like to change about that?
KrytenKoro: I would like a mediator to help determine which sources best fit any wikipedia guidelines on priority of sources or foreign-language-based sources, or in general which version of the entry best works with Wikipedia guidelines and verifiability.KrytenKoro 23:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Delsait:

Mediator response
As a big Zelda fan I'd love to take this on. So far I've heard no response to this case from Delsait. I will contact him and hopefully get him over here.