Talk:List of world records

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I was surprised that Wikipedia didn't have a similar page before, so I created this. The way my luck goes, there actually is a page and I couldn't find it... --Chino 11:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Billion 2 Use of Pound Sterling 3 Records to be included 4 Organisation 4.1 3rd level 4.1.1 4th level 5 Clean up 6 Does anyone know... 7 Japanese page 8 Heaviest person 9 Largest Empire 10 Shortest Song 11 World record toys 12 Highest mountain in solar system 13 Possible Wikibook 14 Longest-running animated series 15 "World" Records 16 Really, People! 17 Absolutely 100% 18 Now I know 19 Most Performed Song Ever?

[edit] Billion

1000000000 (one thousand million) or 1000000000000 (one million million; 1012)...

What you think?

My point is... The sense of the word is ambigious in the context and thus another word shall be given for populace et al.

[edit] Use of Pound Sterling

Under the Money part of this page, I propose that alongside the US$ and the Euro, we use the British £ Sterling. The pound sterling (£ hereafter) is one of the world's major three currencies. Many British people (including myself) have no idea of conversion rates between the £ vs. $, or £ vs. €. The Guiness Book of Records themselves use pounds and dollars conversions in Britain, and in the event of euros needing a mention, the Guiness Book of Records uses pounds, dollars and euros.

[edit] Records to be included

My suggestion is that we should include records that have, or should have, a Wikipedia page. Therefore the world record of eating peas with toothpicks would not qualify... Also the page may become quite cumbersome after a time, so dividing it may be necessary. Also if the record cannot be clearly defined or it is under dispute, it should be noted. An example of this is the largest naval battle in history. --Chino 11:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

• I feel like this list is getting a little out of hand. Almost none of the records on here actually link to an article about the record, even the legitimate records. I can't really think of a good way to codify a policy for this list, because the critera for inclusion is so subjective. I was thinking only articles that would mention the record in the first sentence, but there are some fairly noteworthy records that are only sidenotes in their subject's article and plenty of trivial records (see music) as well. Anyone have an idea? johnpseudo 19:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

• • I agree - would you be interested if I attempted to start a wikiproject on 'records' to co-ordinate this page and related pages I would like to create Japanese Records, Commonwealth records, Major league baseball records? This would endeavor to produce a guildline for what is and what isn't a notable record, and maintain pages within that guideline. --Neo 19:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

• • Sure. Splitting things up into different sections would definitely aid in the guidelines development. This definitely needs some brainstorming. johnpseudo 16:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organisation

As this page requires many categories and sub-categories, I suggest the following maximum number of headline types:

[edit] 3rd level

[edit] 4th level

• 5th level
  • 6th level
    • The Record

[edit] Clean up

There are many examples throughout this article where in numbers, commas and full stops are being mixed up. Like a building being 553,33 metres tall.

That's because Europeans switch our comma with a fullstop.

[edit] Does anyone know...

Does anyone know what the record is for the most languages spoken by an individual? I've been wondering.

If you count programming languages, over fifty =)

or just go to the List of polyglots.

I recall that there was a record held by a Hungarian man (whose name I don't know) who spoke 36 languages. I can't remember whether I saw that in an earlier copy of Guiness World Records or elsewhere, I'll look into it though.

[edit] Japanese page

is quite interesting, perhaps someone could do a translation. 203.218.91.57 14:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heaviest person

Is there a reason the article lists Jon Brower Minnoch instead of Carol Yager as the heaviest person? The article on Minnoch mentions Yager as being heavier.

Anyhow, I just wanted to know if the list is trying to mirror Guiness or another book of records before changing it my self. sendai 05:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Some anon added a heaviest woman entry. Ah vell. I'd still like to know if this list is an attempt to mirror another list of records, at the moment it seems like a free for all. sendai 16:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Largest Empire

I thought the largest empire was the mongolian empire at its peak, not the British empire. I know the mongol empire had the biggest percent of world population in it, but just counting the land area, wasnt the mongol empire the largest?

The british empire was more recent and the borders were more clear-cut, but lands like north of Mongolia and territories surrounding conquered cities are less clear.

well the Mongol empire extended from the pacific (in china) all the way to central Europe so yeah i also heard it was the largest empire.

What are you talking about? Modern Russia is larger than the Mong Emp!

-G

[edit] Shortest Song

I don't know if this qualifies, but this might be "There's a Riot Goin' On" by Sly Stone, which is listed on the album at a length of 0:00 minutes.

• No offence, but this record is totally rediculous unless qualified, e.g. "the shortest top 20 song". The Napalm Death song isn't the shortest ever; I may have heard shorter on a CD by a local death metal group. I might delete it unless someone can give a reference • Leon 05:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World record toys

Does anyone know anything about toys out there? Some colleagues of mine have built a jacob's ladder for a theatre production that is 4.5 m tall by about 0.3 m wide. They think it might be a world record and have tried to find out if there is any information on any that might be bigger.--Gillj1914 13:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highest mountain in solar system

The height of Olympus Mons can't be directly compared to that of Mount Everest, as the latter is given as above sea level, while there is no sea on Mars.

Heights on Mars are found by atmospheric pressure. I beleive that sea level on Mars is defined as the pressure of the triple point of water (611.73 Pascals), yet I may be wrong. Either that or the pressure which is equivalent to the sea level pressure on Earth.

You're first explanation is correct - On the datum of Mars. Olympus Mons is 27km above this datum. --Neo 10:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Wikibook

May I suggest about possible wikibook of this list of records. Possible under the title of “The Wikibook List of Records”?--159753 15:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Longest-running animated series

According to Anime Insider, the longest-running animated series is not Simpsons but an anime called Sazae-san. I can't confirm this; I'd just like to bring some attention to it because Guinness has had it wrong for some time. Wehpudicabok 05:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

It's true. Sazae-san started in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san --221.113.38.2 17:41, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "World" Records

What do the following have in common?

• Best selling single in a week (US)
• Most Successful Act In UK Chart History
• Biggest Selling Artist in Japan

Can I propose that all records on this page must be world achievements, and where neccessary country pages are created, for instance List of records of the UK, List of records of the USA, List of records of Japan. While this would mean that a lot of the current music records are lost, it could help lose some of the inherent POV of listings, for instance I'm sure I can find a small European country where an obscure local artist can beat the Beatles record of 20 #1's, whereas having a record of 20 US or UK number one's is a lot more verifiable and it is more clear as to what the record actually means. --Neo 10:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Really, People!

• 'Best Selling album by a latin artist on the BILLBOARD POP 200 List in its first week of release'

Isn't that just trying to hard to achieve a 'record'; I may as well claim to have edited the most wikipedia articles of anyone in the United Kingdom sitting in a physics department!

There are at least three things wrong here for this to be a 'world record' (I'm not trying to pick upon this fact in any sense, its just hit me as a particularly bad example) these are: i) Its genre specific - 'latin artist'; surely for something to be a record it should transcend all genres. ii) Its nation/specific agency specific - 'BILLBOARD POP 200 List'; I don't know, but I imagine this is the largest chart of the USA? Even so thats restricting the eligability for the record to one nation, and for all I know this is a chart assembled by 1 bloke in his basement from 1 record store. iii) Its time specific - this is possibly getting picky, as the fastest selling album in its first week is intersting, but *please* for a specific genre and chart its like trivia cubed - only people who are fans of the artist involved would *actually* care!

Lets try to have a little sense in which records we add, and if needed create specific genre based pages - Records of the Billboard 200 list would be a fine page to list this record on! --Neo 11:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Absolutely 100%

I couldn't agree more with the last two statements. Taking up the issue of Beatles #1s, they had 26 (I think) "world" #1s as some that didn't reach #1 in the UK, did in the US and visa versa.

I have just removed some records from Major League Baseball in the USA (shockingly the USA is not the world). The records were billed as "Most X in an MLB season" or similar, and while a couple of them may well have been world records, most if not all were records of MLB and not the world! These records should be on a Major League Baseball Records page. --Andy Hartley 13:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Now I know

After I added yesterday to this article that Spider-Man 2 and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith also grossed $200m in 8 days, and that King Kong cost $207 million to make — both of which are true — someone not only removed this information but said it was wrong. Wikipedia is always criticized because users are able to log in and edit it. I think these people are crazy, but such messages strengthen that opinion. User:gmeric13@aol.com

[edit] Most Performed Song Ever?

According to the list: Imagine by John Lennon is the "Most Performed Song Ever". What is the authority for such a claim? Can anyone can anything to the list without some kind of verification? I do not believe that "Imagine" is the 'most performed song ever', and I doubt if there is anyone who can prove that it is. I think "My Way (song)" by Paul Anka and/or Frank Sinatra is more likely to be the most performed song ever, because LycosIQ said it was the most performed song of the 20th Century, (1900's), and that seems a lot more credible.204.80.61.10 17:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk