User talk:Sam Vimes

Archived messages: Part 1 (Feb-Sep 2005) | Part 2 (Sep 2005-mid April 2006) | Part 3 (mid April 2006-Sep 2006) | Part 4 (Sep 2006-Mar 2007)

Välbe

Thanks for the information, Sam! Do you know if they both now have Estonian citizenship? If so, then, of course, she should stay listed as "Välbe". Otherwise, I don't know.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Not being an expert on the subject of skiers, I'm going to leave this to you folks to sort out :) If you jointly decide that the article should be moved to Yelena Vyalbe (which is exact romanization from Russian) and need my help, just drop me a note, I'll take care of it.

As for the Kruglovs and "Buligine", I'm gonna straighten them up right now. Thanks again!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Spurt

Regarding the 2006-07 BWC edit: I admit I "shot from the hip" on this one, but I had a distinct feeling that the word is sometimes used to some extent like I "extrapolated" after all:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
    Spurt \Spurt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurting.]
        To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency. [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : 
    spurt
        2: move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn: forge, spirt]

That clarification aside, your change to a more common English phrase might have been a Good Thing, I guess. (On the other hand, we should also use the whole of the language. Whatever...) :-) --Wernher 22:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

BWC article split

I put your OK suggestion on the article's talk page, and commented on it. --Wernher 23:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up to Sapporo

FYI. I just wanted to let you know I have a user who will be able to download images for fair use for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007. His name is User:Jared and he put in all of the action pictures for the article Cross country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He might be able to get them in. Also, I updated the Top 10 listing for the ski jumping part of the event, along with the cross country and nordic combined parts. Also, why did they award the Holmenkollen medal to King Harald V and Queen Sonja? That was a bit of a surprise if you ask me. I thought Simon Ammann of Switzerland or Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset of Norway should have received it. Chris 00:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I added Estil and Hjelmeset to the list as well. If the King and Queen are not winners of the award, then I will remove it ASAP. Thanks again. Chris 13:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

That is fine. That means I won't have to make any more adjustments until one of the active skiers wins again at the Holmenkollen, the Worlds, or the Winter Olympics. Chris 13:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

world cup

That last edit of yours seems to be contrary to the rules as stated in the article. The article states that D1 is Pakistan if it qualifies, and is otherwise whatever team replaces Pakistan; and that D2 is West Indies if it qualifies, and is otherwise whatever team replaces the West Indies. So Ireland should be D1 irrespective of who finished top of the group. Hesperian 11:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Then you just need to finish the job by fixing the table at the top of 2007 Cricket World Cup#Super 8. Hesperian 11:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I see that you're not using Template:Limited overs international in the group stage and super 8 article, even though both looks the same. So thought that if you used this it would be easier. If not, just ignore this then.--Thugchildz 04:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice to be home :)

Hi Sam! Nice to hear from you. it's very nice to be back around again. I have indeed been getting involved in some heavy duty vandalism-reverting (500 edits in two days, or near enough...), just to ease myself back into the swing of things. I have proved (to myself) that it is possible to do effective vandal-whacking using Special:Recentchanges even if a pronounced lack of admin tools doesn't make things easier. I can't even guess what multiball is, although I'll wager it's painful... Hope you're bearing up alright -- what have you been working on recently? All the best, Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 22:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

How come we don't have an article about the 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships yet? Punkmorten 09:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast! All that remains are biographies for medal winners ;) Punkmorten 11:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Discworld?

Just out of interest, is your account named after the Discworld character Samuel Vimes? Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 18:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Norway Davis Cup team

Great job with the Norway Davis Cup team article! --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 22:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Twenty20 "multiball" silliness

Please do not make sly jokes at the expense of wikipedians who are obsessive Cricket fans who have themselves had sly jokes made at their expense, as you did in Talk:Twenty20. It may be considered vandalism. Cricket is silly enough already...

And here's two good examples of this:

• the last overs of the 2007 Cricket World Cup Final;
• there's a 19 year old Norwegian who has a strange affection for the game of cricket.

Check out Talk:Twenty20 for more.

ps: Sam - it's 'unfathomable' not 'infathomable'.
(In my defence: I'm not an English language chauvanist or monoglot. I speak a few other languages. Nevertheless, the only Norwegian I know is "Et Dukkehjem", "Hedda Gabler", and "Gengangere" ;P )

--Shirt58 12:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

David Stevens (cricketer)

Hi Sam. I've added to prod to this cricketer because he seems not to exist. On the What Links Here lists there are various links to your articles in your sandboxes for the 2005 cricket season, but I think in each case they refer to Darren Stevens (cricketer), not David. Anyway, if you think the chap deserves to survive then please feel free to disagree. Kind regards as ever. Johnlp 17:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's individual

Hey there. I know you contributed a lot to this article, and it looks very good. I would like to know if you could do me a favor. I'm trying to reformat it and I think it may eventually make GA status if we can increase the prose right. Anyway, you'll see that I redid the first table so that it contains all the data, so that 5 tables would not be necessary. I'd like to know if you had the time to transfer ranks from each of the tables below the main one into the corresponding open spots on the upper table. It may be a tedious job, but now that I have the formating right, it shouldn't be too bad. As well, do you think that it would look better if the Final time column and the Difference column were morphed like on the Russian version of the page? Give me your thoughts, and if you cannot do it, no sweat. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐  22:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Historical ATP Tour pages…

I'd like you to take a look at this. What do you think? Thanks. —MC 19:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

1997 World Athletics Championships

Sam, I notice that you have started to fix up the 1997 WC page! I had commenced this on my own, but now I see you have inserted the coding for the men's track, so I will let you continue. Unless you are not going to complete this? If you're not, let me know, otherwise I'll leave you to it.Canada Jack 03:26, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Took a look at what you have done and looks good! I went to the IAAF site and double-checked the results and the only corrections needed was to add a few PBs, and clarifications of two records. The women's 4x100 gold was an AR, so I took out the NR and WL. Also, the men's 400 hurdles won by Diagana was erroneously listed as a NR, his time was a WL, but he had a faster time run several years earlier.

So, a grand total of one mistake, Sam. Pretty good I'd say! Thanks to you all the WC pages now look the same and we (finally) have actual marks set at the 1997 WC. Canada Jack 20:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I took out the WL just because it was not so impressive. Setting a CR and an AR are both impressive feats, far more impressive than a WL (which, by definition, occurs at least once a year). I'd be inclined not to bother saying "WL" if a CR is set, or an AR. Maybe when a NR is set. With all those records, it starts to sound like that McWhirter quote when Bannister ran sub 4 for the mile, "Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event 9, the one-mile: 1st, No. 41, R.G. Bannister, Amateur Athletic Association and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges, Oxford, with a time which is a new meeting and track record, and which - subject to ratification - will be a new English Native, British National, All-Comers, European, British Empire, and World Record. The time was 3..."

Anyway, I thought the two records were sufficient but that was just my call. If you feel WL needs to be there, go ahead and put it back in. Canada Jack 20:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Awesome User-name

Hey mate, is Sam Vimes your real name or is it inspired by Terry Pratchett? Cheers! Dfrg.msc 09:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

The Ashes

The Ashes has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

hi Sam. I have nominated this article because I feel it doesn't satisfy modern standards anymore. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:17, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

2007-08 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup

Thanks man, you do a great job! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umi1903 (talk • contribs) 19:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh man you are so fast to update ! :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umi1903 (talk • contribs) 12:55, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Great race so far in Davos!! Who's your favourite ? :) for my money, russia I or Norway I... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umi1903 (talk • contribs) 11:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sam !

Sorry for replying late. Yeah, you are right, an unpredictable surprise! Czechs have shown full potential to me. I hope they can keep this form, world cup would be much more competitive! Btw, I could not find any regulative issue about "bonus seconds" on tour de ski web site despite i checked both fis-ski and tour de ski official websites. Do you have any source for this point? This is very crucial for me cause we will have a meeting soon at the office and i'll be obliged to intoduce Tour de ski!

Also, Bjoergen is "fantastisch" so far, nevertheless, Virpi is approaching !! So tough !!

Hi!

You are a mytic being!!! Thanks for the PDF. I can tell you may be, i work for a Sport TV station (name's undisclosed). And we have a new dispute today. Do you know, how many World Cup victory did Astrid Jacobsen have so far? We have an Italian colleague and he claims she has one top podium place! But, I am sure she didnt! Do you have any idea? Tack sa mycket ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umi1903 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

We had the same idea. Thanks a lot mate... You are very polite and helpful, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umi1903 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sam, I wish you a very best year of 2008 ! I will spend a week in France, would you like anything that i send to you from there mate ? :) cheers! --Umi1903 (talk) 00:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment

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Erik Tandberg

Since you are from Norway, maybe you can answer this question for me. Was Erik Tandberg, your outer space expert who called the Apollo 11 moon landing back in 1969 the same one who competed for his home country at the 1952 Winter Olympics in bobsleigh? Please advise. Chris (talk) 15:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Removal of protected-template from UEFA Cup 2008-09

If I was too fast removing the template from the article, feel free to put it back in. I just naively thought it would not be needed any more since the protection has expired... Hockey-holic (talk) 21:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but it looks like KingJeff and GrantAlpaugh are at it again. Is there any possibility to stop them? They're just creating chaos on the decision process at this moment with permanent re-verts of each other... Hockey-holic (talk) 22:34, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Handball disambiguation

Sam, I agree with your idea of having the word "handball" resolve to the disamb page. That is most probably the right place that search engines like google or yahoo should send searchers to since there are so many different sports and interpretations. Within the wikipedia itself, where specific words are linked to a page, those should still work as originally intended if they pointed to their intended target, but shouldn't we leave it to the original authors to straighten those out? I did as you suggested - reading a few dozen of the pages that link to "handball" but it is nearly impossible to tell exactly which sport the author intended without taking some kind of bias towards one sport or another. For example, many of the pages I read are simply listing sports that are offered at a particular location (club, college, university, etc.), or sports that are played by individuals (as in biographies). If it requires knowledge that only the author would have to know which sport is intended, then the disamb page is the right place for it to go until the author clarifies. Until the author makes the edit, the reader of the article will be rightly sent to a page that clearly identifies the ambiguity of what the author has written. Does this make sense? I am always willing to learn, so teach me some more.

BTW, when I look up the word "handball" in Merriam-Webster, there are two entries: "handball" dated 1873 which refers to the game found here as "American Handball", and "team handball" added to the dictionary in 1970. I have not done an exhaustive search of other dictionaries to see how they deal with this, but just find it supports one view point. Note also that the "American Handball" page used to be titled just "Handball" in wikipedia until someone who wanted handball to resolve to "Team Handball" made a change.

Think about it: nobody in America refers to it by "American Handball"; it is just "Handball" here. Only in other countries where they have a game they call handball do they need a way to differentiate it. Why is it "Team Handball" instead of "Non-American Handball" or "Euro Handball"? Gene Waldvogle (talk) 04:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!

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Hi

I don't see you around much these days. Busy with non wiki life? =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Graeme Pollock

Hi. I wondered if you would mind creating a stub article on Pollock on no:? The Cricket WikiProject on en: is trying to improve the article's rating to get it approved for the Wikipedia 0.7 release and one factor they look at is interwiki links. A link on no: would be great. Any chance? (please reply to my en: talk page - thanks) --Dweller (talk) 11:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Splendid! --Dweller (talk) 12:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Red links in Template:International cricket in 2005-06

There are seven red links in Template:International cricket in 2005-06 which have existed for nearly four years. If these articles are not likely to be made, I will remove those links. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

John Emburey

source:

Gooch, Garaham with Alan Lee My Cricket Diary '81: The West Indies, Australia, India Publisher: Stanley Paul 1982. ISBN: 0091477506.

actual quote can be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.101.71.148 (talk) 19:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

removal of warnings

is [1] okay ? Earlypsychosis (talk) 11:24, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

okay. Cheers Earlypsychosis (talk) 11:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

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IPA norske idrettsutøvere

Hei Sam!

Jeg svarte på WP:RD/L, men legger inn tilleggskommentar her. Jeg er pt. på høst/førjulsferie i sydlige strøk og kan ikke høre lydopptakene dine. Jeg tror likevel User:Tamfangs tilbakemeldinger på vokalene i lydfilene dine er gode. Jeg tror også det er vanskelig for en som ikke kjenner forskjellen på norske korte og lange vokaler å høre forskjellen på "Hanne" og "Hane". Takk for at du lastet opp lydfilene som jeg ennå ikke har hørt, og velkommen som bidragsyter på engelsk wikipedia! Hvis jeg kan være til hjelp, bruk min talk page på en.wikipedia.org. Mvh NorwegianBlue ^talk 22:11, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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