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August 8, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
November 16, 2025	WikiProject A-class review	Approved
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 29, 2022. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that an incident in the Tailhook scandal* involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?*
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 8, 2023.
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Paula Coughlin was not expelled from the military

The article states in the legacy section that she was expelled from the U.S military. However, according to Rosemarie Skaine's "Power and gender: issues in sexual dominance and harassment" She resigned from the military. This information can be corroborated from the Paula Coughlin article, so should that be changed on this page?

History of Tail Hook Convention Location Inaccurate

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The Inteernational Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, opened in 1969. It and the Flamingo Hotel were sold to Barron Hilton in 1970 and is now the Westgate. The antics and lack of decorum were witnessed and common knowledge long before the 1991 legal episode. ~2026-48373-58 (talk) 16:47, 5 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Paula Coughlin was not expelled from the military

History of Tail Hook Convention Location Inaccurate