Place names should totally be used for theories; it is the core of the Zelda 2 evidence regarding Ruto.
Difference is that we know that through developer interviews, though.
Link probably wouldn't shut up about Mabe Village upon his return to Hyrule and it likely became a staple of Hyrule culture that the Hero of Legend experienced a psychotic episode.
That's mere speculation. If we want to go into that realm, we could say that Link
didn't tell anyone about LA because they would think he went mad.
It's only the leaf mask, which Occam's Razor would suggest is based on a Korok, but it also could have just been a leaf.
Looks like a Korok to me.
Still, even ignoring that, Koroks are literally just transformed Kokiri, and the Kokiri exist in all three timelines.
(well, we don't know when he died in the DT, we haven't seen it).
Exactly; it doesn't say that the Hero of Time survived, either.
But the Temple of Time isn't the birthplace of Hyrule, the Sacred Ground is. That was part of the multitude of retcons that came with Skyward Sword. Also, the fact that the Temple of Time from TP would be more destroyed than the one from BotW doesn't make any sense at all
See SMS's response.
Zelda 2 comes after Zelda 1, MM comes after OoT, FS and FSA come after MC, PH and ST come after WW, WW and TP come after OOT, ALBW comes after ALTTP,
All of these are true in the official timeline as well, so...
