80.221.173.142

November 2010

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Discussion on Telectroscope

[copied from User_talk:Harryzilber]

I am sorry to have diffirent opinion about vandalizing this mentioned article. Does article say how that device work? No! What I added was solid fact, nothing more. It just happened to lower credibility of wikipedia so you decided to make me bad guy. Judging my action vandalism is really not fair. You have power, so do not get crazy about it... -Atso —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.221.173.142 (talk) 11:15 am, Today (UTC−5)

Atso (User:80.221.173.142): When you wrote in the very first sentence of the article's lede "It is sad to say, but this article does not really tell how this device work", you committed at least two errors, the most important one being that ALL comments on whether or not an article is of good or poor quality, and how to improve the article, are placed on the DISCUSSION PAGE (which you access by the 'Discuss This Article' link on the left side, or the 'Discussion' tab at the top). Please NEVER add such comments directly into the article, because they are considered vandalism by Wikipedia's editors.

Secondly, you also ignored the very first sentence of the article, which said: "The telectroscope (also referred to as 'electroscope') was the first non-working prototype". The reason there's no description of how the telectroscope worked is that it didn't work. It was only a conceptual, or theoretical model, of how to provide a televised image, as opposed to the concept of magical looking glasses. The development of electronically produced images and video would require more than twenty years of basic scientific discoveries before television technology could even start to be developed. Also refer to the later section "Further developments", which states that the telectroscope likely never existed, meaning that it was a fictional device, akin to science fiction, when it was described in 1878.

I have downgraded my vandalism warning on your user page to a caution, and I ask that you read the introductory material on how to write, and improve, Wikipedia articles. Thank you. HarryZilber (talk) 17:14, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

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