User:Blue Rook/Contributions

Wiki editors generally seem to love showcasing their contributions, no matter how absurdly insignificant. I held out for as long as I could, but now I have succumbed to the self-congratulatory, raging narcissism I like to call contribution exhibitionism. In a supreme show of shameless arrogance, I now lower myself to join the great unwashed mass of wiki editors who vainly beat their chests and swing their balls by painstakingly listing the work they've contributed to their wiki. Bear witness to my unparalleled ego! Bear witness to my obvious excellence! Bear witness to my... contributions!



Main namespace & Main Page content

 * 1) Creating articles for any character from the show who is named (read: minor characters), and linking to them everywhere appropriate (most or all of these pages are listed below, underneath the episode guides area)
 * 2) Continually creating entries and uploading pics for any qualifying Unnamed characters, and linking to them as above
 * 3) Implemented the browser banner across the front page and its subsidiary portals, using the idea from Proudhug and with critical help from SignorSimon (who created a selection of mini-images for each link), and thanks to Memory Alpha, which I copied nearly wholesale
 * 4) Categorized actor pages with season-specific and credit-specific categs (done, it seems, until more actor pages are created; for this task, I created Category:Uncredited actors and filled it)
 * 5) Hashed together the Day2 through Day6 templates using an original from Proudhug, and replaced virtually all of the episode guides' old banners with them
 * 6) Created (and maintaining) the Unnamed Day # characters‎ list articles
 * 7) Maintaining / expanding the Day # antagonist list pages as necessary

Images

 * 1) Tagging all of the images from the show with Fairuse (already tagged hundreds, but still in progress)
 * 2) Categorizing images with character-specific categs where appropriate (in progress)
 * 3) Uploading images for every minor character's info-box sidebar that I possibly can: the image placeholder is my enemy
 * 4) Rummaging through Special:Unusedimages to insert or personally store good images

Project pages

 * 1) Gave all the PNA notices a facelift (see the Wiki 24:Bullpen for the list)
 * 2) Completely phased out the three "Insufficient information" templates and categories, replacing them with specific PNAs or simply fixing their linked pages (the only evidence non-admins can see of their existence is deep in page histories)
 * 3) Updating the Wiki 24 namespace / policy pages to reflect new standards
 * 4) Handling a number of the Monthly FA switches
 * 5) Wrote the Wiki 24:Featured article documentation, the seminal source for updating the FA  ;)

Deletions

 * Housekeeping: using my Sacred Cudgel of Admin'ry, I have swatted over 650 vandal-droppings, AFD-nominated content, blurry/unused/duplicate images, emptied categories, useless redirects, obsolete project pages, orphaned discussions, and busted templates into the wretched, dusty crypt known as the Deletion Log. In each instance, I worked — and will continue to work — to find a new home for anything remotely useful found in them.

Mysteries solved / exploits

 * 1) Stamped out with disturbing prejudice the web of deceit and half-truths crapped out by this wiki's worst troll.
 * 2) Stumbled upon a mind-numbing online treasure trove of 24 actors, which is somehow packed with uncredited background extras whose work in 24 cannot even be found on IMDB. Taking no chances, I verified a handful of the unfamiliar gems and discovered that at least the following character/actor matches were accurate (bold articles/entries were created by me):
 * 3) Tracie Dominguez
 * 4) Mark Newsom as Palmer's Secretary of the Interior
 * 5) Joseph Hodge as Dar
 * 6) Matt DeCaro as Tim Felson
 * 7) Anthony Richardson as Williams
 * 8) Tim Mikulecky as Mark Wexler
 * 9) Stephen Mendel as Officer in DC (when I originally wrote the entry for this unnamed character awhile back, I had foolishly assumed this was Steven Arthur on account of misleading credits)
 * 10) Also, this website verified that Bahar Soomekh's deleted character was not "Aza" Marwan, as I originally had thought I heard, but Hessa Marwan
 * 11) ... more to come, in time! I opened a can of worms with this, didn't I?

I often go beyond the call of duty and track down actor identities to match them positively with otherwise-ambiguous character credits:
 * 1) Determined for certain that Terrence Wayne, credited only as "The Man", portrayed the character who identified himself as Alpha 7.
 * 2) Figured out that Dorman was "Saunders' Man" was, and matched him to Eamon Hunt, and did the same for Gavin Glennon, who played the unnamed "Saunders' Operative". Originally, which actor played which character was totally ambiguous as IMDB and the internets in general had no photos of these men.
 * 3) Discovered that the picture and everything written about Steve (Day 5) was horribly wrong, rewrote the character article from the ground up, and corrected the actor page (Matt Huhn) appropriately.
 * 4) Found out that two different actors played Hasan (Day 6) (see here).

Episode guides written
Writing a competent episode guide has proven to be the sign of a truly dedicated Wiki 24 contributor. It takes more than two hours to get these right and to be as thorough and professional as possible. I can't help but post these with at tiny bit of fanfare: my episode guide post summaries are capitalized, so that my fellow recent changes patrollers can know that something momentous and wonderful just happened. ;)

Fully-loaded, main namespace articles (from scratch)
I've created a metric shit-ton of articles from scratch for all of the characters below, and uploaded pics for all of them who were not unseen. A large number of them haven't been touched by other editors, and many others were left alone for months afterward or have had absolutely no significant content changes since I created them... this is a point of pride for me. I never start articles as haggard stubs for other editors to slog through and make a billion content, style, and layout fixes. I always create my pages with as much info and proper formatting as possible before I even think of saving the page for the first time.

Full character pages
Remember, these were all from scratch. This list does not include the large number of content-free stubs that I've adopted and resurrected up to fully-loaded articles.


 * 1) Abad [[Image:Alpha7Day5.jpg|230px|thumb|right|[[Alpha 7]]: "so, wouldn't it be creepy if some, like, terrorist snuck right into my office, walked directly next to me, and shot me to death? And I never saw him enter through the door that's no more than a few meters from my face?"]]
 * 2) Abdullah
 * 3) Achmed
 * 4) Adam (Secret Service)
 * 5) Ahmet
 * 6) Ali (Day 4)
 * 7) Alpha 7
 * 8) Amis
 * 9) Andrew (Day 2)
 * 10) Anwar
 * 11) Appell
 * 12) Ari Consul
 * 13) Atef El-Khabir
 * 14) Barbara Maccabee
 * 15) Beatriz
 * 16) Beth (Day 5)‎
 * 17) Bill (Day 3) [[Image:MartinezDoc.jpg|230px|thumb|right|[[Martinez (Day 4)|Dr. Martinez]] is one of the few people who has ever been allowed to borrow Steven Colbert's actual, trademark right ear.]]
 * 18) Boorman
 * 19) Brandon
 * 20) Brett
 * 21) Brian
 * 22) Bruce Gluck
 * 23) Bryce (Day 2)
 * 24) Cale
 * 25) Carlos Corretja
 * 26) Clark
 * 27) Cobb
 * 28) Colette
 * 29) Collier (Day 6)
 * 30) CTU SWAT Agent Jones
 * 31) CTU SWAT Agent Smith
 * 32) D. Davis
 * 33) D.J. Graves [[Image:DaltonDay4.jpg|230px|thumb|right|"[[Dalton (Day 4)|Agent Dalton]] to base: my partner was just disintegrated in a fireball. Sooo... could I, like... get his built-in overtime and benefits?"]]
 * 34) Dalton (Day 4)
 * 35) Danny (Day 2)
 * 36) Danny (CTU agent)‎
 * 37) Davis (Day 2)
 * 38) Deborah
 * 39) Deng
 * 40) Dennis (Day 3)
 * 41) Dorman
 * 42) Doug Sloan
 * 43) Dr. Joyner
 * 44) Dr. Linzer
 * 45) Dr. Martinez
 * 46) Dr. Sanford
 * 47) Ed (Day 3)
 * 48) Emily
 * 49) Frank
 * 50) Frank Cassar
 * 51) Frank Wells
 * 52) Fred Laughton [[Image:HorterDay4.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Officer [[Horter]] to his wife: "you know, honey, I had this nightmare last night that I was responsible for the most horrifying security fuck-up in all of modern military history. Ah, whatever, I'm off to the night shift!"]]
 * 53) G. Harding
 * 54) Gary (Felsted employee)‎
 * 55) General Blaye
 * 56) General Gratz
 * 57) General Stone
 * 58) General Thomas
 * 59) Gregor
 * 60) Gus
 * 61) Harris (Day 2)
 * 62) Hart
 * 63) Heather
 * 64) Hikmat Palpatine
 * 65) Holtzman
 * 66) Horter
 * 67) Ian (Day 3)
 * 68) Irv
 * 69) Jane (reporter)
 * 70) Jason Carasone
 * 71) Jeff [[Image:JimmyDay6.jpg|230px|thumb|right|"Hey, I'm [[Jimmy]], and like all other 24 convenience store owners, such as Frank Davies and Doug, I am a unique character with a distinct appearance who is neither stereotypically portly nor evinces the flat disposition of blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth America."]]
 * 72) Jesper Isberg
 * 73) Jim (Day 4)
 * 74) Jimmy
 * 75) John (Secret Service agent)
 * 76) Johnson (Day 3)
 * 77) Ken Williams
 * 78) Kevin (CTU)
 * 79) Lamb
 * 80) Larry Hertzog
 * 81) Liles
 * 82) Luis
 * 83) M. Dunley
 * 84) Mae
 * 85) Maggie (Day 2)
 * 86) Marcy (Day 3)
 * 87) Mark Wexler
 * 88) Mary
 * 89) Maurice Landstrass
 * 90) Michaels
 * 91) Mitchell (Day 4) [[Image:MarkWexlerDay5.jpg|230px|thumb|right|[[Mark Wexler]]. The number of times you peek through the window at the people you're supposed to be closely guarding is inversely proportional to how much you suck at being a guard.]]
 * 92) Ned
 * 93) North
 * 94) Partners Bergen and White (Day 4)
 * 95) Partners Graves (Day 3) and Martinez (Day 3)
 * 96) Partners Adam (Forbes bodyguard) and Jason (Day 4)
 * 97) Partners Craig Erwich and Rick (Day 4)
 * 98) Partners Douman and Faress
 * 99) Partners Pach and Young
 * 100) Partners Hutchinson and Altieri
 * 101) Partners Ivan and Ishmael
 * 102) Partners Marcus (Day 2) and Cole (Day 2) (somebody beat me to their partner Rouse)
 * 103) Partners Davies and Matthews (Day 5)
 * 104) Partner Bronson (somebody beat me to his partner Pearson)
 * 105) Partner Hasan (Day 6)‎ (somebody beat me to his partner Hasim)
 * 106) Parker (Day 2)
 * 107) Peter (Day 5)
 * 108) Phil (Day 3)
 * 109) Phillips (Day 4) [[Image:SteveHillenburgmonitor.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Try as he might, [[Steve Hillenburg]] could not tap his way out of his two-dimensional prison using only a paper folder. Okay, I know... this one wasn't as funny as the others.]]
 * 110) Randall Sikes
 * 111) Rasheed
 * 112) Raynes
 * 113) Rick Garcia (character)
 * 114) Robert Joseph
 * 115) Robert Morrison
 * 116) Rogers
 * 117) Rosser
 * 118) Sam Tyler
 * 119) Sarah (Day 3)
 * 120) Scott (Peter Kingsley sniper)
 * 121) Scott Borman
 * 122) Secretary Alex
 * 123) Secretary Dawes
 * 124) Secretary Durant
 * 125) Secretary Jennie
 * 126) Sergei Voronov
 * 127) Shipler [[Image:Stipes5.jpg|230px|thumb|right|This is just an image I uploaded for the page I created for [[Stipes]]. There was room here so I inserted it because it's cool. Sorry, no jokes or anything. Really... move along please... you're creeping me out :(]]
 * 128) Steve Hillenburg
 * 129) Siad Calabi
 * 130) Simon Cullens
 * 131) Stevens
 * 132) Stipes
 * 133) Stokes
 * 134) Tim Felson
 * 135) Tuers
 * 136) Trask
 * 137) Vlad
 * 138) Wilson (CTU security)
 * 139) Yuri (Day 3)
 * 140) Conspiracy character Matthews (Conspiracy)
 * 141) Conspiracy character Oliver Krakowski
 * 142) Deleted character Frank (deleted)‎
 * 143) Deleted character Hessa Marwan
 * 144) Deleted character Badar Marwan
 * 145) Deleted character Azara Nasir
 * 146) Deleted character Steven Wiseman
 * 147) Unnamed deleted characters

Full actor pages
Remember, these were all from scratch. This list does not include the large number of content-free stubs that I've raised up to fully-loaded articles.


 * 1) George Alan
 * 2) Eugene Alper‎
 * 3) Carmen Argenziano
 * 4) Ike Bram
 * 5) Matt Bushell
 * 6) Josh Clark
 * 7) Paul Terrell Clayton
 * 8) Addie Daddio
 * 9) Alex Daniels
 * 10) Matt DeCaro
 * 11) Tracie Dominguez
 * 12) David Fabrizio
 * 13) Demitri Fields
 * 14) V.J. Foster
 * 15) Jack Galle
 * 16) Reynaldo Gallegos
 * 17) Gavin Glennon
 * 18) Kelly Gullett
 * 19) Joseph Hacker
 * 20) Joseph Hodge
 * 21) Richard Holden
 * 22) Eamon Hunt
 * 23) Ravil Isyanov
 * 24) Kris Iyer
 * 25) Michael Khmurov
 * 26) John Lacy
 * 27) Tony Lee
 * 28) Stephen Mendel
 * 29) Tim Mikulecky
 * 30) Jake Muxworthy
 * 31) Richie Metcalfe‎
 * 32) Gino Montesinos‎
 * 33) Mark Newsom
 * 34) Bruce Nozick
 * 35) Scott Paulin
 * 36) Will Radford‎
 * 37) Anthony Richardson
 * 38) Victor Rivers
 * 39) Stan Rush
 * 40) Carlos Sanz
 * 41) Wylie Small
 * 42) Bahar Soomekh
 * 43) Ted Sutton
 * 44) Randy Thompson
 * 45) Adam Vernier‎
 * 46) Dana Walters
 * 47) Ed Wasser
 * 48) Stephen Wastell‎
 * 49) Cliff Weissman
 * 50) Samir Younis
 * None of the actor redirects I have created are included

Other full pages

 * 1) 12451 Saticoy Boulevard
 * 2) Dawn Brigade
 * 3) Day 6 antagonists
 * 4) FB subcircuit board
 * 5) IDS Data Systems
 * 6) Unnamed government officials
 * 7) United States Marshals Service

Other namespace pages created

 * Wiki 24:Featured article documentation
 * My work in other namespaces, besides main, is also extensive. Besides the FA documentation, I've uploaded hundreds of images, created a shitload of categories, and posted a handful of templates. I never catalogue these, as I consider most of them to be mere "supporting cast" to the "main cast" of the main-namespace articles.

Pages I "started"
These are some of the pages I can claim that I started. But, as any veteran editor will immediately recognize, "started" often means the content was not originally written by the contributor, but instead just copied or hashed together from pre-existing articles. Because I am constantly dripping with awesomeness, I actually take the time to cull these out from the other pages I handcrafted instead of listing them together like a wiener. I didn't actually create all the contents of these below... I just pasted from various sources, formatted, added to, and/or altered them into a new article page.


 * Cylobine-pentothal
 * Day 5 12:00am-1:00am/Gallery
 * Dog
 * Earthquake
 * Federal Air Marshal Service‎
 * FOX
 * KRLH
 * Unnamed Day 1 characters‎
 * Unnamed Day 2 characters‎
 * Unnamed Day 3 characters‎
 * Unnamed Day 4 characters‎
 * Unnamed Day 5 characters‎
 * Unnamed Day 6 characters‎

Blue Rook's userspace index

 * User talk:Blue Rook - contact me here
 * User:Blue Rook/Barnstar - for my Dead-On and Owned! Awards
 * User:Blue Rook/Shrine - for my shrine to the Bluetooth Cabal of Day 5
 * User:Blue Rook/GhostGallery - for a list of currently-unused images for which you're welcome to find a spot