Talk:Burj Khalifa
Latest comment: 29 April by Rome in topic Spire height inconsistency: lead, body, and infobox give three different values
Spire height inconsistency: lead, body, and infobox give three different values
The article gives three different heights for the same physical object — the spire on top of Burj Khalifa:
- Lead, paragraph 1: "...a roof height (excluding the antenna, but including a 242.6 m spire) of 828 m (2,717 ft)." — 242.6 m, cited to ref name="Vanity" (the CTBUH "Vanity Height" study).
- "Architecture and design" section: "This Template:Convert spire is widely considered vanity height..." (immediately followed by the same CTBUH "Vanity" reference). — 244 m.
- Infobox: Template:Tlx — 242.5 m.
All three are presented as the spire's height, two of them cite the same CTBUH source, and they cannot all be exact. The 242.5 / 242.6 m values agree to within a rounding digit and appear in the more carefully cited locations (infobox + lead), while the body's "244 m" looks like a stale or rounded value.
Suggested fix: replace "this Template:Convert spire" in the Architecture section with "this Template:Convert spire" so that the lead, body, and infobox all agree on the figure attributed to CTBUH. Rome (talk) 00:31, 29 April 2026 (UTC)