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World Records related to hitchhiking has been removed from guiness book years ago. why shouldn't we start a new list? what do you think? how can somebody prove a world record? any ideas? --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 07:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
:we could allow people to claim a record, until someone else overrides it? Persons should be in our trust-networks for matter of knowing it is true or not. --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 14:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 
== Proving records... ==
 
... is virtually impossible and that's why (or so I guess) the Guinness Book of Records has stopped accepting them. I asked the four drives who helped me cover the 2,318.4 km for their names and addresses, but Guinness initially wasn't interested. It was only because I'd been in touch with [[Ken Welsh]] a couple of years earlier, to point out that someone had plagiarized his "Hitch-Hikers Guide to Europe" that they relented.
 
If we're going to set up a records page, it will depend on honesty and we should only accept claims from people who actually keep some kind of logs. My € 0.02...
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