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"Overview" section

It seems like a lot of the information in the Overview section ought more properly to go into a Trivia section of some sort-- especially the bit about Gibbs' NIS shirt, or Mark Harmon cutting his own lines. Should I make one and move that info over? Alessandriana (talk) 05:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia sections are generally discouraged by Wikipedia, if the information isn't notable it might be better to remove it unless you believe it really would devalue the article to do so. Either way, at this point adding a trivia section and moving stuff from the main body of the article into it would probably be the wrong approach and would immediately result in many people jumping on the article trying to get the trivia section removed and the stuff placed in the trivia section either removed or moved into the main body of the article again. --Squiggleslash (talk) 09:21, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

McGee

Season 4 has just started here in the UK. (I taped it last night and have seen 'Shalom' 5 times! - I love NCIS way too much!) Anyway, McGee is a senior agent and Gibbs is retired, etc, etc, but this isn't what the characters table says... Do they all get demoted later in the season?

Season four has already finished in the US and I don't want to ruin it for u, but the character list is right DLWDWFreek (talk) 04:50, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Major Case resopone team has 3/4 agent levels

Position	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Early Season 4	Rest of Season 4
Superversory	Gibbs	Gibbs	Gibbs	Tony	Gibbs
Senior	Tony	Tony	Tony	(none)	Tony
Junior	Kate	Kate	none	McGee	McGee
Probie	none	McGee	McGee	Lee	none
(Mossad)	none	none	Ziva	Ziva	Ziva

Please correct this if wrong. Gibbs comes back. Watch Espaced tonight. OK.Lizzie Harrison 12:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)Lizzie Harrison 18:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Season 4 in the UK

To people in the UK

Just so you know. last night there was a new FX advert and it is no longer "coming soon" but "coming in April"

Yippie!!!!!!!! Lizzie Harrison 19:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's April 10thApril_I_R_Fooled 19:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cashed Out

An episode entitled Cashed Out has been added to the episode list in season four, however according to TV.com and imdb.com no such episode exists.

Could someone please, either verify the existence of this episode or delete it.

Mhrmaw 05:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No such episode exists yet because it's a future episode. If you look in the list you'll see that the projected airdate is 20th February which is in two weeks from now. --Fogeltje 08:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Main Character images

What happened to the main character images in the table? --Mikecraig 02:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think they can be found under "List of Characters". I have no idea who did it, but I assume it was done to keep a good overview of the article. Jackpayback 14:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC):[reply]

The images were deleted from Wikipedia and thus also removed from the table.--Fogeltje 17:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worth to mention?

I do not know if this is useful. Maybe others have noticed. As seen throughout the episodes, situations seems to be held in chapter-wise plot, other than an ongoing flow. I am speaking of the snapshot/black and white effect that occurs at an end of a certain scene or episode. Notice that during the first season, the effect considering the next-scene/situation-event was different, such as the electronic buzz, zoom, buzzz, zoom. The snapshot effect in later episodes does seem unique, for I have never seen such in other series.

I am sure there will be users who would immediately remove any entry of such, so I wonder where this type of entry "would" or "should" go.

Additionally, I may have overread it, but I see no referance to so-called running gags e.g. Gibb's slap referring to mentor giving its student a mild punishment. (Edit: found it, character guides, my bad - Yet I do think it should count as a running gag along with the show)

May of course all be useless, but I still was only just wondering.Jackpayback 09:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:NOR. What you have seen or how things seem to you have no relevance to the role of Wikipedia editor. -- 71.102.136.107 04:25, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My post above is referring completely to NCIS' cuts between chapters and how it used to be during the first seasons - and not just "what I have seen". While it may be seen as "trivia", there is nothing I have added, changed or done in "my point of voice", other than my comment about the snapshot effect being unique. Now it would probably be irrelevant of precisely describing what was changed, but the black-white snapshot should be mentioned. But then again, since I asked if it were worth to mention or not, I assume it would be better to leave it out. Lastly, somebody would scratch it anyways - which is about as natural as Murphy's law. However, IF somebody does think it should be added, feel free to put it under some Trivia section. Jackpayback 04:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What the?

An anonymous IP added this, and I took it out. As far as I know, we're still in season 4, and Gibbs hasn't "dissapeared". Mark Thompson is the CEO of BBC, which tells me this is nonsense. Add it back in if I'm wrong. ----Steve 14:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Special Agent Mark Thompson (Sam Cook)

Special Agent Mark Thompson (Sam Cook): Became an NCIS agent after the dissapearance of Gibbs in the end of Season 4. He is a good agent but can be a little weirder in some cases. He graduated from Harvard in a degree originally for Coroners, because later in season 5 he started helping with autopsies.

Yep, the above was vandalism. --Purpleslog 12:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Episode Section

Someone should submit a comprehensive episode list, since it appears there are people submitting summary content for each episode (poorly I might add in some cases, I just cleaned up S.W.A.K.) but no where to find a list of episodes that may or may not yet have content submitted. Otherwise, many episode titles can be found sprinkled throughout the NCIS entry not necessarily categorized. Just an opinion of mine.

Nevermind. I found the episode list, although it didn't "jump out" at me at first. User:xxx 22:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Movie References

Has anyone noticed that in every episode the characters either name or indirectly refer to a movie? -usually Tony211.31.234.241 09:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, of course they do, Tony is a self proclaimed movie buff, and equates everything in real life to a movie he's seen, much like current situations remind Ducky of things that have happened in the past and he, too, will go into great detail about them.Laboviorodruin (talk) 16:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Filming Disruptions

Due to bushfires the filming has stopped so that the stars can defend their homes Reference

Scoreed

One critique of article

I have never watched this show, so I think I can be ojective when reading this article. The very first line is a bit of a turn-off "NCIS is a genre-busting TV show that follows a team of the Naval Criminal Investigative..." "Genre-busting"? A bit NPOV. Since I don't watch the show, I'll suggest a rewrite but won't edit it myself. 155.188.183.7 17:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)Surfbruddah[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Ncis cast main.jpg

Image:Ncis cast main.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done I have added a proper Fair Use Rationale for that image. Please feel free to adjust it if I missed anything. Thanks. UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 18:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dead Link

Link, reference 7 to LA Times article about Bellisario leaving the show is dead. Here are some alternatives. http://www.thetvremote.com/don-bellisario-steps-down-at-ncis/ http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/28/171114.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.251.254.172 (talk) 14:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Time of Airing

When shows are nationally aired in the US, the correct times to use are Eastern and/or Pacific Times, not Central Time as was previously in the article. While I know that 8 PM Eastern is 7 PM Central, the common lexicon is to just use the Eastern Time or to say XPM Eastern, X-1PM Central. I forget if Mountain Time is also X-1 off the top of my head when shows air (IE airing at 8 PM Eastern, but 7 PM Mountain), it's been a long time since I spent any length of time in the Mountain Time zone. Shows that air at a certain time on the East Coast tend to be time delayed to air at the same time on the West Coast (IE 8PM Eastern shows air at 8 PM Pacific). UncleThursday (talk) 07:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Updates to Regular and Recurring Cast members past and present

67.204.213.217 (talk) 23:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Updated the characters section with a few newer additions and missed members of the show. Also corrected the Positions of the current members to reflect their actual rank, Although Gibbs (harmon) does supervise the team his official rank is still Special Agent with no preceding title such as Supervisory, however he is the team supervisor thus denoted by // Team Supervisor, also DiNozzo (Weatherly) is also the same case where as he is the team's Senior Field Agent and McGee (Murray) is the Junior agent (Probie) whereas their official titles are all Special Agent, any other title is purely internal and team related only.

I will add more if I find any inconsistencies in the future.

Thank you all for the good work

NetEcho (talk) 20:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected actual ranks to reflect what team. Previous editors keep reverting it to Supervisory Special Agent which is incorrect and was incorrectly aired by ET and ET Canada.

Judgement Day - Season 5 Finale

I know the fates of several main characters are in question at the end of the season finale, but please remember - until we have a source that says that an actor is leaving the show, or that their character is being written out, or whatever, we cannot add speculation to the article. For now, Ziva, McGee, and DiNozzo are all still regular cast members, and Deputy Director whats-his-name is still a recurring character. Obviously, some of that may change - but the article should not change unless and until sources become available. Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 12:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spoilers

Is it entirely fair to post spoilers in the page without warning? I'm glad that the rest of the planet gets to know that key characters have been killed and how it happened before it even airs in their country! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.187.44 (talk) 14:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone coming here should expect spoilers. Please read WP:SPOILER regarding this issue.--Fogeltje (talk) 22:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thats just Petty

I noticed that they are always dealing with petty officers though they are mostly dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.215.125.217 (talk) 02:09, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I dont think that's exactly relevant. munchman | talk; 12:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If a newspaper (maybe a navy publication?) ran an article on the phenomenon, then it might be worth a mention somewhere. Until then, though - unlikely. UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 12:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Which Disks are the special features on?

I'm just wondering because I've seen every NCIS episode and I don't really want to rent all of them just for the special features because it wastes time on netflix and I don't really want to watch all the episodes again.