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::You didn't even format the external link. If you are going to be lazy and create ill-formatted, stub articles, please don't bother doing so. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:19, 1 February 2015 (EST)
::You didn't even format the external link. If you are going to be lazy and create ill-formatted, stub articles, please don't bother doing so. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:19, 1 February 2015 (EST)
:::By the way, it was the atheists who largely demanded more proof and evidence as far as the [[Atheism and obesity]] article. And I certainly granted their requests! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:22, 1 February 2015 (EST)
:::By the way, it was the atheists who largely demanded more proof and evidence as far as the [[Atheism and obesity]] article. And I certainly granted their requests! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:22, 1 February 2015 (EST)
OK, I plead guilty to not having looked around, and found the connection between the phrase and violins. And you're right—when putting in the link, I briefly thought about putting in the explanatory text, and was lazy. Many people just use the "lazy" form, and I was lazy too, and I apologize. But I think your version was still too terse. Just saying "fit as a fiddle"? That's just the name of the page! And people can see what the URL is by hovering the mouse. So I think what I put in there is reasonably "user friendly"—a very brief description of what they will get when they click the link.
But I don't agree with your comments above about "ill-formatted, stub articles". The reference to ill-formatted was presumably about the laziness I have admitted to above. But "stub", along with your comment about making it "encyclopedic" seems to miss the point that some articles simply have no need to be huge. (And I was, of course, holding up your "atheism and obesity" article as an example of the extreme other end of the spectrum.) You do the articles in the idiom category (there are many that are just as short) an injustice when you say that they are stubs. "Stub", in wiki parlance, means a placeholder waiting for someone—the original author or someone else—to come along and flesh it out to its proper form later. That is not the intention of the articles in the idioms category. I consider the "fit as a fiddle", as well as "spur of the moment", "bite the bullet", and several others, to be fine just as they are. Even though they are very short. Of course, if you believe they should be fleshed out more, by all means do so. I put in a larger amount of detail for some of them, like "tar baby", because I believe they merited a fuller explanation. But not all idioms require a lot of explanation. My guide in all this is the question "What would it be useful for home-schoolers to know about this?" I think it is good to know what the tar baby was really all about. I still remember the ''Little Golden Book'' of Uncle Remus stories I had as a kid, and the illustration of Br'er Rabbit all covered with tar.
[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:51, 1 February 2015 (EST)