Talk:Tablilla

Hm. Wouldn't driving a razor-sharp wedge into a toe chop the toe off or cut it apart, and not just shatter the bones within it? StellarFury 16:02, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I doubt the factuals of this article. The Inquisition had regulations that forbade them to shed blood or disfigure victims during torture. It may have been used. but not by the inquisition. Ravage

Object to flippant tone of thise article 69.178.122.114 10:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correction[edit]

The contributor of this article may be very gleeful, but the information is rather incorrect: either he contributed his own sadistic creativity, or he mistranslated medieval Spanish idiomatic phraseology such as "al entre" and "metía á golpe." Smashing toes and fingers with hammers was a common form of simple-minded torture, but this has little to do with the tablillas. The only comprehensive source on the construction and deployment of the tablillas was Joaquín Bastús y Carrera, a nineteenth-century critic of Cervantes. I have modified the article to incorporate his detailed description and, if so desired, can quote verbatim from his 19th-century Spanish text infra. 73.49.1.133 (talk) 11:29, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article for Deletion[edit]

I'd like to nominate this article for deletion. It's a very poorly written article, propped up by unverifiable sources, apparently mostly accumulated by someone hopping from IP address to IP address, and there simply isn't enough evidence that its dubious subject exists.

The Larousse citation can't be confirmed.
The Hirsch citation can't be confirmed.
This content relies on only one single historical source I was actually able to identify: a single aside in a meandering 19th-century commentary on Cervantes.

Any thoughts? Porcsten (talk) 13:23, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Deletion[edit]

An alleged form of torture for which actual evidence is vanishingly scant.

This entry's validity rests on a single dubious account from an 1834 commentary on "Don Quixote" which does not point to any actual historical example of its use of and which calls it "rarely used." (The word "tablilla" does not occur in Cervantes' text.)

There are two other sources given which are basically impossible to independently check. WorldCat tells me I am not within four hundred miles of a copy of the Hirsch book. Those two sources are used to (allegedly) support tangential stuff that seems only to be there to make the article longer.

This is an old article that hasn't been challenged before, but that doesn't make it a good article.

Porcsten (talk) 13:51, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The proposed deletion was opposed. Rather than pursue AFD, I've removed unsupported or tangential material. Porcsten (talk) 16:21, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]