Talk:Denailing

Zodiac Killer

Perhaps this article can reference that the Zodiac killer wished to denail his victims according to some of his letters.69.178.122.114 10:05, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Use in US internment camps

I have never heard of a case where de-nailing was used in WWII US Internment camps, so I'm removing it until some evidence is supplied. ACDCPres 01:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ACDCPres (talk • contribs)

How painful?

I accidentaly ripped off an entire thumbnail today. The removal was surprisingly painless, pain did not start until after ten minutes or so. But lots of blood... I guess the situation is very different when denailing is done on purpose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.149.212.85 (talk) 22:17, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Accuracy and sourcing

There's no shortage of factual information out there about this and other torture methods, so shouldn't be a problem to source an article like this properly using decent reliable sources and avoiding a patronizing tone of bias. And with all the quality sources available out there, there's just no excuse for using blog entries as source material. Laval (talk) 03:15, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

The blog entries appear to have been removed. I've been looking hard and I'd argue there is, in fact, a shortage of academic sources on this topic. If you have found some, it would be helpful if you could post them here. I've removed the tags because I've altered most of the lede paragraph to reflect the thoroughly sourced UN Istanbul Protocol [[1]] which describes: A) the need to check for nail removal in alleged torture victims, B) "When the nail matrix is burnt, subsequent growth produces striped, thin, deformed nails, sometimes broken up in longitudinal segments. If a nail has been pulled off, an overgrowth of tissue may be produced from the proximal nail fold, resulting in the formation of pterygium," and C) the practice of inserting wire or other objects underneath the nail bed. I couldn't find anything about the efficacy of nail torture, in fact most sources seem to suggest that (like most forms of torture) it doesn't tend to produce useful information. There are some good sources describing its modern use (or the threat of it) in the context of the War on Terror (a bit ironic if you think about it). This article could still be improved - somebody was a little too m-dash happy, IMO. Also, I'd like to propose moving this article to De-nailing or Nail removal, as those seem to be the terms most frequently used by the sources. <> Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 04:50, 28 October 2016 (UTC)