# Talk:Battersea Power Station

The second paragraph of the article begins

The station is the fourth largest brick building in Europe
but the source cited is not at all reliable.  It is a blog post at http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/list/largest-brick-buildings-around-the-world-infograph , which does not discuss the topic at all.  Instead, it announces an infographic published by another source, brickhunter.com, which appears to have been a commercial brick-procurement service, and which is now defunct.  It provides an illegible, reduced-size version of the infographic.  (A complete version is available from http://visual.ly/largest-brick-buildings-world .)  
The original source was http://www.brickhunter.com/blog/largest-brick-buildings-in-the-world.html would surely not have been considered reliable even if it was still online.  
The infographic is described as follows:

Using a combination of Google Earth and an area calculator, Brick Hunter has painstakingly measured the ground size of the largest buildings around the world
which does not instil confidence: What if they measured wrong?  What if they forgot about some brick buildings?
http://www.catholic.org/travel/story.php?id=41790 , a source at least as reliable as the one cited, claims that the largest brick building in the world is the Cathédrale Ste-Cécile in Albi; this structure is not in the infographic's top ten.  
I suggest we remove this extremely questionable claim from the article.  —Mark Dominus (talk) 15:02, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

I noticed this a few months back and tried to find a reliable source. What I found were several contradictory sources of questionable reliability. In addition to the problems you note, I don't think ground footprint is a reasonable measure of brick building size. They obviously used this measure just because it was convenient. I think we could safely say Battersea is "one of the largest" brick buildings in Europe. I could go along with either saying that or simply removing this claim. Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:27, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Looking through Google Books this morning I found many claims that Battersea was variously the largest brick building in Britain, in Western Europe, in Europe, and in the world.  I did not find any discussion of what this would mean exactly (By square footage? By number of bricks?)  nor anything I would consider really reliable, such as a specific comparison of Battersea with Malbork Castle, the Cathédrale Ste-Cécile, etc.  I am going to change the wording to “one of the largest brick buildings in the world”, which seems well-supported.  It is probably true, and even if not, it can be well-cited.  —Mark Dominus (talk) 14:38, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
I visited the power station as a young school boy from the near by Latchmere School in circa 1950 and after visiting the generator room with the its big green generators we were told that 73 million bricks was used to build Battersea Power Station.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.77.88 (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2021 (UTC) 

Is there a reason why this article's lead section now reads like a development company's new project pamphlet? This article, I note, passed as a good article ten years ago and sadly, it has been left to rot. I've not bothered with the rest of the article, but I would lay money on it that it is just as bad. CassiantoTalk 18:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Nothing heard, so I've been bold and rewritten it. CassiantoTalk 13:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

How come there is no mention of the Battersea Power Station appearing in the Beatles' film Help! with the caption "A Famous Power Station"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 16:49, 14 May 2023 (talk • contribs) 2601:283:8301:820:5073:2e22:484e:809b (UTC)

That's easy. Nobody has added it with a supporting reference. Assuming the appearance is notable then feel free to find a reference and add it to the article. --10mmsocket (talk) 17:03, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
What about a website from The Guardian, a significant British newspaper? Does that count? Certainly the Beatles are more culturally significant than Pink Floyd. Here's the link to The Guardian story. It is about six images down on the website.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/22/monty-python-children-of-men-battersea-power-station-films 2601:283:8301:820:E978:71F2:9D00:9FB6 (talk) 00:09, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
That's really good, yes. 10mmsocket (talk) 06:02, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

@Murgatroyd49 Hi, in my opinion OSM_map shows inside data while pushpin_map shows outside data (here location inside English). So both of maps are required because they complement each other. Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 09:06, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I disagree. It's in London the most-know location in the country. Nothing in London needs a map to show where it is in England, even for a global audience. 10mmsocket (talk) 09:20, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
Showing it on a map of England is not terriby helpful. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:22, 9 November 2025 (UTC)