User:Sam Vimes

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Sam Vimes
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Sam Vimes
Typing style Both handed
Editing activity
Days editing 809
Total edits 14,483
Editing average 17.90
Deleted edits 183
Pages edited 4,580
Highest edits in a month 2,060
Main namespace edits 11,214
User namespace edits 724
User talk namespace edits 667
Admin actions ~60
Userboxes 0
Pictorial awards 9
Most edits to one page 208
Languages spoken 2

As of 17 January 2007
Source: Wikimedia Toolserver

I'm a 19-year-old from Norway who has a strange affection for the game of cricket. As such, my major contributions have been to this cause, including:

I've also contributed to articles on motorcycle speedway, and I have an aim to improve at least some of the speedway articles to FA status. However, the main page still needs some serious cleanup and explanation.

Other sports (contributions - haven't started all of these):

Also: [1]

Away from sports:

  • Heggedal; was a rather nasty hoax, thanks to Punkmorten we got rid of that and now there's a fairly decent article in its place

Inspired by Ambi and others, I have started a /10 Random Pages Test.

I keep getting called Sam Vines, for some infathomable reason. I suppose it must have something to do with Wikipedia's font. So just to clarify - it's Vimes.

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[edit] DYK

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I joined wikipedia in December 2004, but I only had 10 edits until 13 May 2005.

Oh, and here is a list over my edit milestones

[edit] Nice things

(formatting shamelessly nicked from User:jguk and possibly a lot of other places)

I hereby award you the oldest cricket bat in recognition of your sterling contributions to WikiProject Cricket. (from jguk)

In honour of your contributions to the cricket section. How the hell do you find so much time for this ? :-) From Tintin 01:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

For updating all the bio articles, you get a cookie Ian ≡ talk 01:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Hats off to the person from Norway who puts us 'test' members to shame with his awesome contributions to the sport of cricket. May he lead the Norwegian cricket team to World Cup Victory! =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:12, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

For giving us International cricket in 2005, you get a cupcake. Ian ≡ talk 01:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Your amazing cricket contributions are still continuing at a pace faster than Brett Lee's bouncers. Well done! DaGizza Chat (c) 12:18 18 December 2005 (UTC)

For quick responses to talks, and just generally making me feel cheerful, even in the middle of a major current event, I award you this Kindness Barnstar! M0RHI | Talk to me 00:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Sam can also be used as a women's name as a shorter version of Samantha, but I assume you are still a guy, which is a good thing.... but I would have kissed you now if you were a girl for your work on the Dutch allround championships. I was away for a few days in these busy days and finally ready to update is and then saw you already did it. Perfect !!! As you already received a running man barnstar in the past and as this and other projects you are working on are often current events I would like to award you with this barnstar for all your efforts on projects we've been working on together in the last couple of months. It's all yours, SportsAddicted | discuss 03:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Cricket This user is a member of WikiProject Cricket, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of cricket. Please feel free to join us.

[edit] Legal things

Apparently this is necessary. I agree to multi-license all my text contributions to the main, main talk and template namespaces, as described below. Contributions in other namespaces, such as user pages, are excluded. This agreement remains in effect so long as the following notice remains on my page.

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[edit] Weird things

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[edit] Useful things

Recent changes on Test cricketers

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