Forum:CT:Amendment to WP:CANON/TE regarding food

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As we have been writing food and beverage status articles for over two years in WP:GE (our first two status articles were drinks), we have managed to iron out a lot of precedence for what should be considered canon/in-universe in terms of foods and beverages offered at real-world themed locations such as Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. This amendment to WP:CANON/TE aims to codify that precedent. The text of the amendment is below and would be added under a new section titled "Food and beverage":

"Any food or beverage item with a themed in-universe name sold at a location that is intended to be in-universe should be considered an in-universe food or beverage item (examples: Fried Endorian Tip-Yip, Ronto Wrap). Any real-world branded food or beverage item that is not given a unique in-universe name is not considered to be in-universe unless it is given an official canon backstory (examples: Coca-Cola, Dasani, Sprite, Diet Coke). Drink brands like Minute Maid and Powerade, though sold in restaurants in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, are not given any canon details and should be assumed to only be included in menus for the sake of guest convenience and satisfaction.

"Individual real-world ingredients within in-universe food and beverage items should only be considered a canon part of a food or beverage item if that ingredient already exists in canon (examples: caffeine, sugar, salt, alcohol). For instance, the existence of Sprite does not make lemon-lime canon. However, if another canon source were to introduce lemon-lime, the ingredient would then be treated as an in-universe ingredient of Sprite. Real-world ingredients should also not be assumed to be the same as similarly-named in-universe ingredients (jun-lime is not to be considered an in-universe equivalent of lemon-lime unless a canon source confirms such).

"In regards to menu name changes made for guest convenience at real-world restaurants, if a dish is changed in name only, and no canon source identifies it as a separate dish, then the new name is to be considered an alternate name for the dish. If the dish is altered along with the name change, then it is to be considered a new dish. If the dish is not altered in the real-world restaurant, but the new name is used to identify a separate dish in another canon source, the two dishes should be considered separate."

This should hopefully give us more concrete guidance on deciding how to handle real-world menus and menu changes in regards to our coverage.