Editing Eurovision Wiki:Teahouse (section)

== Drafting Articles ==

An experienced wikipedian created a username subpage for me to work on an article I had drafted in text file offline per the recommendation of other wikipedians.  I am making major changes to the article because I am condensing it significantly, among other things. But, because I wrote the entire article, it seems inappropriate to label any of the changes "major", yet the wiki definition when publishing to save any change requires it.  I didn't use my sandbox because this article is to turn an existing few sentence stub article into a full article, and there was some concern about maintaining the history of that stub article even though it is only a few sentences with a redirect link.  So far, I haven't gotten a message from an administrator about my characterization of the changes but all of them are going to show up eventually when the draft is moved from my userpage subpage to the namespace of the subject.  Any suggestions about what is essentially a lot of worthless history and continuing drafting this way? Thanks. [[User:Emanresu0|Emanresu0]] ([[User talk:Emanresu0|talk]]) 20:16, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

:Hi @[[User:Emanresu0|Emanresu0]] and welcome to the Teahouse. Do not label the changes you are making as "minor". See [[Help:minor edit]]. There is a very specific meaning in Wikipedia rather than the usual meaning of not a major change: {{tq|Any edit that alters the meaning of an article, even slightly, is not minor.}} That means any addition to an article is not minor. Leave the "minor" tag for correcting typos, etc. [[User:StarryGrandma|StarryGrandma]] ([[User talk:StarryGrandma|talk]]) 20:44, 18 March 2026 (UTC)