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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)
::::1550 requests? You know a lot more atheists than I do! :-) [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:53, 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.
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.