Talk:Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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This article was nominated for deletion on May 28, 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

I'm not sure why this article was marked for cleanup. Anybody think it could it be removed now? Splamo 01:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

There were no sections when it was added. I agree, it should be removed. --DavidHOzAu 04:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Don't delete 2 what's he drink? 3 Three wives or four? 4 ncis junior or senior partner 5 Burned boats 6 Gibberish 7 Account of MSM Award 8 Age 9 Statement 10 salut 11 television project/deletion discussion 12 why should it be deleted? 13 OR removed 14 Possible sources for this article

[edit] Don't delete

Don't delete this page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tolnedra (talk • contribs) 14:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC) I don't think this page should be deleted or any other main character pages because if somebody hasn't really seen much of the show, then they research them on here. To be honest, when I started to watch NCIS, I looked on here and I still do! Please don't delete it!

[edit] what's he drink?

Several episodes refer to Gibb's drinking habits, but I can't find any reference within the article, and can't for the life of me remember what it was. AnarchyElmo (talk) 05:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Three wives or four?

The article uses both numbers. So which is correct? 23skidoo 05:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

He's been married four times, and divorced three, his first wife was murdered.--ᎠᏢ462090 20:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

up until the season three finale, only the last three were known to the rest of the team.

[edit] ncis junior or senior partner

in my opinion it was his senior helping him recover the second time. after all he calls him boss :P

Rule 1&4

Rule 1 was just stated as "Never screw over your partner." Rule 4 was the best way to keep a secret is to tell no 1 the second best was to tell one other person if u most, there is no third best

[edit] Burned boats

I've just been told that in one episode Gibbs claims he burned each boat he completed. Is this true, if so I need to add it to the part that mentions the boat in the article. ~~ Peteb16 22:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gibberish

Or do I mean Gibbs-erish? Anyhoo, my query regards this passage: "but another technique which he enforced to Abby is the fact to encourage her and the others to work faster (For Example, In Deception (SE3EP13) Abby and McGee are tracking down an internet pervert. Gibbs instructed them to relay the IP address they had to each one within the local community. Abby and McGee tell automatically believe that they have 20 minutes to complete this task as Gibbs always was think do be done quicker. When they tell Gibbs how long they think they have Gibbs replies saying that he was thinking of 10 minutes not 20)." Does anyone have a version of this that wasn't translated to German and back via Babelfish? Optimus Sledge 03:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I just deleted it.Richard75 23:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Account of MSM Award

I just watched Season 3, Episode 11, Model Behavior and altered the account of the award, which read:

In season three, when Gibbs receives the NCIS MSM, Tony as usual takes the medal and locks in a drawer where one can see a large amount of medal cases all belonging to Gibbs.

My problems with this wording were that Gibbs does not, strictly, receive the medal. He is awarded the medal, but does not attend the ceremony or at any time touch the medal: it is accepted by Tony on his behalf. Although we are encouraged to conclude that this is a regular occurrence, by Tony's preparedness for the ceremony and the presence of several similar presentation cases in a lock-box in Tony's desk drawer, the use of "as usual" in the foregoing carries the stronger implication that we have seen similar scenes before, which we have not. The word "it" is missing (i.e. it should read "locks it in a drawer"). The word medal is a count noun, not a mass noun, so the use of "amount" in the foregoing is an error: "amount" is properly used only with mass nouns ("number" would've been better).

My changes made the text a few lines longer, which might not be a good thing in an already long article, particularly near the top. The critical point is that we are given to understand that Gibbs regularly receives NCIS medals, but has no interest in them. This point with the detail relegated to an episode-specific page, which exist for many episodes, is probably better.

[edit] Age

Do we know how old Gibbs is? Or at least an estimate? I know that in "The Curse" 1x05, he's revealed to be more than 37 but not "considerably." Do we ever learn for certain? Mukk 00:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement

Just a statement, that this page needs to be updated. They are now into season 5 and alot more details have been revealed. --203.59.131.101 13:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] salut

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[edit] television project/deletion discussion

I've added the television infobox to see if we can't bring in some people more knowledgeable about working on tv characters. I also propose removing the Military History infobox. As Gibbs is a fictional character, I don't really think it applies in this instance. Although if anyone can defend it, i'm ertainly not opposed to leaving it there. Also, regarding the current deletion discussion, the most glaring issues seem to me to be that the article is full of Original Research (OR), and is written from an in-universe perspective. What this means is that more third party sources that are reliable need to be added to be sued to establish his notability, and that the article needs to be re-written as if we were looking at it from the outside. While I'm at it, I'll add the OR and In-universe tags to the front to mark it as such. If anybody can think of anybody else can think of anything that can be done, please be go ahead and do it. To participate in the deletion discussion, go here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leroy Jethro Gibbs Umbralcorax (talk) 21:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

• correction to above, the OR tag was already added, but I went ahead and added the in-universe tag. Umbralcorax (talk) 21:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] why should it be deleted?

I also don't know why this Article should be deleted. I've read this talk and the only person how wrote, that the article should be deleted, is DavidHOzAu.

(Maybe have misunderstood any statement...)

And it seems to me, that DavidHozAu no longer belongs to wikipedia...

Leroyjgibbs —Preceding comment was added at 20:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] OR removed

Per the discussion at the AfD, I've removed material from this article that was either in-universe, OR, or not specifically referenced. -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible sources for this article

The version of this article prior to the AfD had what some might consider WP:OR since there were no references. I did a quick check on the EBSCO database at my library and found these articles that might provide references for any interested editors:

• NCIS SHOCKER! TV Guide; 3/13/2006, Vol. 54 Issue 11, p32-32, 1p, 2c
• The MVP of NCIS. TV Guide; 3/27/2005, Vol. 53 Issue 13, p30-32, 3p, 2c
• NCIS. TV Guide; 2/6/2005, Vol. 53 Issue 6, p109-109, 1/4p, 1bw
• NCIS. TV Guide; 11/14/2004, Vol. 52 Issue 46, p110-110, 1/4p, 1bw
• NCIS (TV Program). TV Guide; 9/26/2004, Vol. 52 Issue 39, p107-107, 1/4p, 1bw
• NCIS. TV Guide; 9/24/2007, Vol. 55 Issue 39, p70-70, 1/4p, 1c
• NCIS. TV Guide; 9/17/2007, Vol. 55 Issue 38, p55-55, 1/3p, 1bw
• NCIS. TV Guide; 3/31/2008, Vol. 56 Issue 14, p36-36, 1/4p, 1bw
• Naval Gaze. Entertainment Weekly; 2/23/2007 Issue 922, p89-89, 1p, 2c
• TOP SECRET ADMIRERS. TV Guide; 1/9/2006, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p22-25, 4p, 6c
• MARK HARMON. TV Guide; 4/28/2008, Vol. 56 Issue 17, p22-24, 3p, 4bw --Captain-tucker (talk) 13:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)