Editing Sam Vimes (section)

==Reception and legacy==
Discussing Pratchett's legacy in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Andrew Brown wrote that Vimes "may be the most fully realised decent man in modern literature,"<ref name="Brown">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/12/without-terry-pratchett-world-less-magical-discworld |title=Without Terry Pratchett, the world is less magical  |last=Brown |first=Andrew |date=13 March 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref> while ''[[the Hollywood Reporter]]'' has described him as "[[Inspector Morse]]-meets-[[Humphrey Bogart]]-esque".<ref name=HolRep>{{Cite web|last=Ritman|first=Alex|date=2015-03-16|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld: The Cinematic Universe That Never Was|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/terry-pratchett-discworld-cinematic-universe-781580/|access-date=2021-07-26|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}}</ref>

The [[Cretaceous]] [[conifer]] species ''[[Pseudotorellia vimesiana]]'' is named after Sam Vimes.<ref name="vimesiana">{{Cite book|last1=Natural History Museum (London, England)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113720|title=Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Geology series|last2=Natural History Museum (London|first2=England)|date=2001|publisher=Intercept.|volume=57|location=Andover}}</ref>

In episode 3.4 "Coda" of the TV series'' [[Endeavour (TV series)|Endeavour]]'', Inspector Fred Thursday states that his old mentor was "Sergeant Vimes, Cable Street".