Talk:Counter Terrorist Unit

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[edit] Featured Status

This article was one of our first FA's and was chosen basically because it was, at the time, one of the wiki's best works. There is no way on Earth we can say that it still is. Half of it is a messy and untidy list and another section is copied material. I propose this article is stripped of its FA status. --24 Administration 23:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

 :o How mean! Just because the standards have changed, doesn't mean history should be rewritten. I agree the article would not even come close to making FA nowadays, but the truth is that it did back in the early days. I don't see any reason in stripping it of its FA status, other than to make it eligible for nomination again. And unless it's rewritten, it won't be eligible, anyway, so I think the FA status should remain. --Proudhug 23:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article may be presumably possibly not clear

Yikes! I can't believe this article was once Featured! In my opinion, it needs to be written entirely from scratch. The whole thing is riddled with OOU comments, not to mention TONS of speculation:

"It is not entirely clear what government entity is in charge of CTU..."

"It is possible that the District office oversees an entire region of the United States..."

"This may be contradicted by the conversation between Jack Bauer and George Mason..."

"The CTU substations presumably are the rough equivalent of FBI R.A's..."

"... assisted Jack Bauer in bringing in Jane Saunders were possibly part of the CTU Substation..."

"... The Substations presumably report to District and Division Commands."

Like all of our other articles, this one needs to state the known facts clearly and in context, rather than being littered with comments about what we think and what might be. --Proudhug 20:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

It could use a makeover. On the other hand, when it was voted to be featured, it probably got 3 votes, beating the competetion that had 2 votes.--CWY2190^talkcontribs 21:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IU/OOU

The entire first section of this article, "Position Within the U.S. Government", is written from an out-of-universe perspective, and needs to be removed, entirely rewritten, or moved to the end of the article as "Background information". --Proudhug 20:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

There are all kinds of out-of-universe details in the "in-universe" pages already. Tony Almeida was played by Carlos Bernard? Day 1, Day 2, Day 3? Are you saying all of that is background information? Because I'm pretty sure Tony Almeida didn't "appear" at CTU on an hourly basis.

The in-universe/out-of-universe distinction is useful enough to illustrate which verb tense to use, but ultimately Wiki24 is a repository of information about the show. It's innately out-of-universe, and insisting that pages be written from an in-universe perspective serves no function with respect to informing the reader. We can ask ourselves whether Jack Bauer would understand the pages on the site, but what's the point? --StBacchus 05:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Counter Terrorism Unit

When was it referred to as Conunter Terrorism Unit? Moridin12 21:18, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about Counter Terrorism Unit and made a typo. :D God don't get me started on what it stands for lol. The logo says Counter Terrorist Unit but on numerous occasions, characters have used Terrorism. --24 Administration 22:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Is there any examples of this that anyone knows off the bat? Moridin12 16:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The only instance I can think of off-hand is on the first page of One Shot. I do get a chuckle every time I hear Kate say "Counter Terrism Agency?" --Proudhug 17:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I actually said Terrorism yesterday, explaining the show to someone who had never seen it. It kinda slips off the tongue. O_o --StBacchus 18:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Really? I find it really awkward to say. It's got that extra syllable in there. Come to think of it, whenever I say the name outloud, I usually lazily pronounce it "Counter Terrace Unit". As if Jack and the others are out there putting a stop to balconies. --Proudhug 18:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I can so relate to that Moridin12 20:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Section

The entire first section needs to be re-written still. I'm not sure what to put there but we can't just have these quotes from books. Any ideas anyone? --24 Administration 20:20, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Simply paraphrasing the book information would suffice, methinks. --24.57.166.160 00:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

How about a map shopwing the locations of CTUs in the US? --220.233.124.201 11:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Agency

I'll change it for now... hasn't it been proven that CTU is part of the Agency? Mason said to Nina during interrogation, "How long have you been with the Agency...", so it is deduced there. Also, that is the logical place to put CTU and I'm almost positive that there are other references, I just can't think of them --BauerJ24 03:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, according to the novels, CTU is a part of the CIA. I assume that's the "Agency" to which you refer. --Proudhug 03:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)