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Skintern

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• ... that the term "skintern", for an inappropriately dressed female U.S. congressional intern, was first recorded in an article in The Hill 10 years ago today?

• ALT1:... that in one U.S. congressional office, an inappropriately dressed summer intern was asked to stay out of the intern class's group photo?
• Reviewed: Jade Helm 15
• Comment: The main hook can be verified by the date of the Hill article in the footnote. If it is used, I request that the article run on June 22.

Created by Daniel Case (talk) and Inks.LWC (talk). Nominated by Daniel Case (talk) at 03:42, 11 June 2015 (UTC).

• good 2 go, new and long enough, prose checks, image checks, inline citations checked. and i support alt 1. Good 2 go. --BabbaQ (talk) 00:38, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

No way. On the sources now in the article (and I've done an external search) this is a neologism -- [1]. I'm nominating at AfD -- sorry. EEng (talk) 05:04, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Now at AfD. Whatever the outcome there, a new review will be needed. Statements like this (all without citation, or not supported by the citation given) are classic OR:

• "Around the turn of the 21st century, the congressional staffers who manage the intern programs in the United States House of Representatives began noticing..."
• "On some issues, the staffers and members gave ground as some of those offending interns eventually became staffers themselves."
• "By the middle of the next decade, the skintern phenomenon had been observed in public and private offices around the country" (with no source)
• "Searches on different search engines did not locate any earlier uses"
• "The following year the Kansas City Star ran a similar piece, one of the first in a newspaper outside the large media markets of the Northeast"
• "But it is generally believed that most misattired interns, male or female, are not familiar with professional dress standards"
• "Some other observers also suggest" (When the source quotes one person as saying, "These are young men and women, and they can’t be expected to be decked out in Brooks Brothers", that's not "other observers suggest")

EEng (talk) 11:15, 13 July 2015 (UTC)