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If he's looking for twilight princesses placement, well it is on the child timeline just after ocarina, I won't go into specifics because that would spoil ocarina for you, WW is on the adult timeline. It's a lot easier to place the 3D games, and this is the way they go.
========================Child
================Majora's Mask--Twilight Princess
OoT
========================Adult
=================Windwaker-- Phantom Hourglass

The placement of other games is very debatable, I mean due to the premise of the first two games from the NES, (LOZ and Adventure of Link) they could go pretty much anywhere. A Link to the Past poses a few problems. It could go after Windwaker, after Twilight Princess, or even before Ocarina, but that can't be because OoT has said to have been the first in the timeline. So yeah, there is a timeline for the 3D games, but when it comes to placing the 2D ones, it gets a lot harder.

As for different Links, well its the same Link in OoT and MM, as it is in WW and PH and the original LOZ and AoL, this is because they are direct sequels. Other than that, at the beginning of each of these games, it is the hero reborn basically, Zelda is called Zelda in every game because after a sorcerer cursed the Zelda from AoL, all females born into the royal family of Hyrule were to be called Zelda. Ganon is the same in each of these because it works in the same sorta way that Link does, and in his tribe, the Gerudo's, there is a male born every hundred years.

As for the triforce. The reason why Link is always bestowed with the triforce of courage, Zelda with triforce of wisdom, and Ganon with triforce of power, is because whatever your heart is absolute in, it will reflect it in the triforce.

Any other questions?