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Will
my record
be in the book?
From the Guinness
FAQ:
Each year we receive approximately 65,000
enquiries
from around
the world from people
who want to set or break records. Many are
successful and their details are added to our
database of records.
However, we can only publish around 4,000
records in the book
each year, as it would
be impossible to publish entries on all records
and record-holders. An editorial decision
therefore has to be made as
to which records will be included.
If your record hasn't been selected for publication
on this occasion, there's a chance that it
may be included in future editions,
dependent upon the requirements of the book-buying
public and the managing editor’s discretion. It may
also
appear in this website.
I seem to have beaten the odds ... three
times
...
How
long and in
what format did it take me to compile the data for Guinness?
It
took me almost 5 years to photograph ... catalog (MS Access) and submit
my data
How
long did it
take Guinness to process my claim?
Guinness is
literally inundated by requests each year ... most are processed for
free ...
It took 31 weeks from the point
where I mailed it to
Guinness (2 Feb 2004 - 6 Sept 2004)
It
took 27 weeks 6 days from the point where it was received (24
Feb 2004 - 6 Sept
2004)
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