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"Most Records" is not a Guinness category

The article on the Guinness Book of World Records states that the publishers do not track the person with the most records. If this is so, I suggest changing the text from (in essence) "holder of the record for the most records" to (in essence) "person with a lot of records."

Am I wrong? I don't have a copy of the book, so I can't verify any of this. Lord Geznikor 17:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He just got his 100th simultaneous record. [1] - Calvin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.179.88.114 (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

→ It says here: [2] that it is a record to hold the most records. And it also says that he has 245, not just 237. 99.67.93.67 (talk) 21:06, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Implicit in the article is the sense that these records are somehow, and/or make him, noteworthy. There are dozens of his frivolous, one-off 'records' that nobody would bother to emulate. How do you hold a 'record' for something that never actually surpassed anyone else's accomplishment? Right now, I happen to be chewing a piece of gum. Suppose I took it out of my mouth and hurled it through the door into the next room and it stuck on the wall? Would that be a 'record'?

Dan holds the world distance record for gum-hurling into another room and it sticking to the wall.

Suppose I stacked a half-dozen 78 rpm phonograph recordings between two books and broke them with a karate-chop?

Dan single-handedly smashes 6 old records in 20 milliseconds.

One could take the whole thing in the other direction: It should be an anti-accomplishment to hold the greatest number of silly 'records'; and I suspect his main objective is the publicity all this has given to his health-food store. JohndanR (talk) 04:18, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

When you have no book from the records so go to a libary.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 05:58, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To change

Think not first name in the article is right.
His parents are Jewish should in the article.
Should in the article. abandoned the study of business at Columbia University http://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/2012/04/12/so-you-want-to-be-famous/
Should deleted this blogspot reference: http://whenwhoandhow.blogspot.de/2011/09/who-owns-most-guiness-world-records.html
The category Jewish American sportspeople is not right his parents are Jewish.

Please Northstar7 reverted by vandalism.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 06:12, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One of the sources doesn't work anymore

The source is: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/2015/preview/files/assets/basic-html/page6.html, the page is gone