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artistic license

deliberate distortion of rules or convention for aesthetic reasons
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artistic license

Summary

artistic license ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • artistic license is a type of trope[2].
  • artistic license comprises poetic licence[3].
  • artistic license's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[4].
  • artistic license's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • artistic license's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].

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Definition and Type

artistic license is a type of trope[2].

Use and Application

artistic license comprises poetic licence[3].

Why It Matters

artistic license ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_artistic-license_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{artistic license}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/artistic-license}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Has parts → —
    Has part(s) → poetic licence
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007558375505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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