It appeared to be a renegade. Basically, he took Vorteus's explanation and filled the section with weasel words in order to give the illusion of NPOV. However, while Zelda does not explicitly say that she's Sheik in OoT, we see Sheik transform into Zelda! The only real explanation would be Sheik jumping out of the way and never appearing again, or something like that, and Zelda just telling some weird story about disguising herself as a Sheikah for no real reason... and this seriously violates Occam's Razor. Then add in Super Smash Bros.: it's not Zelda canon, true, but do you really think Nintendo would have let Hal get away with making Sheik and Zelda the same character if they weren't meant to be the same character?