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:This is just one of those sterile questions like whether Meucci, who invented a form of speaking tube, and some sort of electrical device whose characteristics can't be determined (because all records of it were lost due to [insert conspiracy theory here]) can be called the inventor of the telephone, or whether Swann invented the electric light, or Friese-Greene invented the motion picture, etc. etc.  

:This is just one of those sterile questions like whether Meucci, who invented a form of speaking tube, and some sort of electrical device whose characteristics can't be determined (because all records of it were lost due to [insert conspiracy theory here]) can be called the inventor of the telephone, or whether Swann invented the electric light, or Friese-Greene invented the motion picture, etc. etc.  

:The article should avoid any tendentious claims. If you want to cite a good published source that calls Jenkins "the" inventor of television, OK, but the text should read "So-and-so calls Jenkins the true inventor of television" or whatever.... [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 10:40, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

:The article should avoid any tendentious claims. My feeling is that there's no reason at all for the article to say anything about who invented it. Just describe what the various pioneers actually contributed.

 

:If you want to cite a good published source that calls Jenkins "the" inventor of television, OK, but the text should read "So-and-so calls Jenkins the true inventor of television" or whatever.... and you should be even-handed about mentioning other claimants and cite other sources about them, too. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 10:40, 21 March 2007 (EDT)