Talk:Gnaga

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset talk 01:43, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that in 1511, the government of Venice allowed women to expose their breasts to compete with men in cat masks?

• Source: "The Gnaga: the essence of transgression". www.camacana.com. Archived from the original on 2024-06-22. Retrieved 2025-01-31.

• • ALT1: ... that a legal loophole allowed gay prostitution in 16th-century Venice, but only if they dressed like cats? Source: "The Gnaga: the essence of transgression". www.camacana.com. Archived from the original on 2024-06-22. Retrieved 2025-01-31.
  • Reviewed: Not required as I have fewer than 5 past nominations.

Created by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 04:59, 31 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment from nominator: I like ALT1 the best of the two so if both hooks work, I'd like that one to run. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 05:03, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
• Neither source provided is an RS and I'm skeptical about a claim about a legal loophole as none of the sources are what I'd consider reliable for the claim. GayTravel4u refers to as a legend rather than a fact. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:13, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

  The claim is also backed up by the Bartlett source which should be reliable AFAIK. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 14:07, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

  The Bartlett is an architecture school, even ignoring that the source in question is simply hosted on a domain owned by a Bartlett department, it could be a student's work, or simply just hosted there for convenience. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

• (from nominator), I'm retracting this because the article has more issues than I realized and probably isn't suitable for the main page. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 17:18, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

reliability of sources regarding prostitution and punishment

as far as I can see, the only source currently cited regarding the article's point about evading prostitution and crime is

Braidwood, Ella (2019-11-08). "The Complicated History Of LGBTQ Venice". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2025-01-31.

since this article uses language like "according to legend" and "allegedly" when talking about both the topic of popular homosexual courtesans and about the story regarding the female prostitutes being allowed to go topless to compete, I don't think the Wikipedia article should be as definitive in its language. I will submit an edit regarding this, but thought it important to leave this reasoning on the talk page for discussion. 2001:4BC9:82C:41C6:CCD6:45FD:8BA6:B958 (talk) 10:18, 16 February 2025 (UTC)