Talk:Guinness World Records

Record Breakers (TV show)

I'm not sure that the BBC show Record Breakers should be included in the list of Guinness spin offs. It was a BBC show, at a time when there were strict guidelines on tie-ins to commercial products in TV programming; the only real link was the presence of the McWhirters. CulturalSnow (talk) 09:52, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Most tattooed person

Is there a reason the world's most tattooed person is pictured in this article, other than a random arbitrary Guinness world record? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.225.17.141 (talk) 23:17, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Strange Penile Omission, Also, Heaviest Book?

Strange that their searchable website has a result for longest penile artificial/surgical extension, but not longest penis. Also, I was thinking how the Guinness Book is pretty heavy so I searched heaviest book and it doesn't seem to exist! -From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 05:30, 30 November 2020 (UTC).

I don't think this talk should be on wikipedia, however, as an editor who tried to lookup Hypixel's record for Wikipedia, here's a good tip. The search webpage you linked does NOT list all records. If you want to perform an exaustive search, you need to create an account to GRW's website in order to use the "Record Application Search" webpage. 81.245.100.129 (talk) 16:39, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

"List of New or Broken Records in Guinness World Records Books" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect List of New or Broken Records in Guinness World Records Books and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 7#List of New or Broken Records in Guinness World Records Books until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TartarTorte 16:02, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Deliberately ignoring credible record claims

In recent years Guinness seems to be deliberately ignoring credible record claims that come from poverty-stricken countries. In particular, there have been a number of credible claims to tallest living man that have come out of southern and southeast Asian countries that, at the least, warranted further investigation. These include Pornchai Saosri (Thailand) and Ho Van Trung (Vietnam). Unlike many past record claims there is a lot of photographic and video evidence for both of these men. Unfortunately, they have both since died from their conditions.

I feel there are three possible reasons for this (in order of likelihood): 1) Guinness new business model (rightly criticised already in the article) is more interested in rich people paying for records than actually researching legitimate real records. Financing the investigations into these two men would have been expensive with little to no financial return. 2) Guinness is motivated to keep records in the hands of financial sponsor countries such as UK and US. 3) Racism. The worst and least likely reason, but it's crossed my mind more than once over the years.

One thing that is certain is they are moving away from active investigation of claims and requiring the claimants to lodge a record challenge application, provide all the evidence themselves, and pay for it. This, of course, is unfeasible for such poor people. I'm unsure if any of this material is useful for the article but I feel the discussion about their current practices is worth having. 101.177.30.46 (talk) 06:40, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

It's not the role of Wikipedia to investigate. If a reliable source investigates and publishes its findings then that can be incorporated into the article. Nthep (talk) 07:44, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Neutral?

The page was less neutral then the company side. You can read there. Its not offical, its no database, its just accept records of paying costumers, they dont list all records, they dont do own researches to find new records. You can all read this on their own webside. you have to pay them 1000$ and dend them signed document of two witnesses. Then you are in. If you dont contact or pay them you are not. No database and not "offical". Check on the own company website. :) So. Can you belive a record in the GB. Yes, maybe. Better then nothing. But by far not sooo save. A record dokumentet by the press (a reporter team) for example is much better then a simple "say so" of 2 guys nobody knows :) And. Are all records in there? No! Just some of the "offical" records are listet. Just the records of the customers of the company G.! So most of the "offical records" been done are not in there. So it cant impossible be something "offical". If you call it offical people of course think - whats not in this book is not offical :) And this is more then wrong. Its a simple Book from a simple company and just for entertainment and for makeing money. Like all other companys 2. So this should be a main point in this article. Till now the article did exactly the opposit. It makes this entertainment company to someking like or near a "offical" recrord database. And this is completly wrong! Even acording to the information they have on there own website. You can find there all the information. You find there answers to. Do you list all recods? What is the most easy way to get in, What do I have to pay, What I have to do? Why do I dont find my record in? Are we a complet database? Etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.202.180.156 (talk) 11:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)