(08-03-2021, 07:52 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: It also looks like that claim for TV dating back to the early 19th century is a misread of a couple lines in Wikipedia which credit a crude facsimile system as an ancestor of modern TV. They definitely need to pay closer attention to their sources.
To be fair, facsimile transmission is a related technology relating to photography that was basically to still images what the television is to moving images, so it's not actually wrong given such technology was the predecessor of the moving pictures and later television proper. It's similar to how the modern camera is descended from the daguerreotype process, which is an older and cruder form of the modern photograph process.
Also, my plan to depopulate pages like Film/Funny of all examples for pages that already exist to appropriate subpages and keeping "unsorted" examples lacking their own page on those pages only. In the process, this is allowing me to find out which subpages and main pages lack proper markup to fix them and create new work categories as appropriate, thus killing two birds with one stone.