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Unreferenced BLPs
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 * 1) L. B. Cole -

Proposed deletion of Spanish tickler


The article Spanish tickler has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: I can't find the slightest indication in a reliable source that either Spanish Tickler or Cat's Paw is an actual term that was ever historically used to refer to any kind of torture device. Any and all book mentions of this supposed item come after 2005, when this very article was first created. Many of those are trivial mentions. Those which are not are either self-published (such as the Dictionary of Torture) or do not cite their own sources, such as The Wrong View of History).

Reliable books about the history of torture from before 2005 (such as The History of Torture and The Instruments of Torture) make no mention of this device by either name.

Searching on JSTOR turned up no results at all. GScholar had one paper on torture in Nigeria with a trivial mention of the Spanish Tickler as a supposedly common torture device, but that paper was published in 2015, again after the article was created.

The two "sources" in the article are unreliable, just as everything that was located on Google. In short (ok, maybe not), this article flunks WP:V badly.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)