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Death date is incorrect in a hidden field.

On the main wikipedia page, if you start typing in "M.C. Escher", it will offer suggestions, including this page. The title of the suggestion it brings up is:

  M. C. Escher
  Dutch graphic artist (1898-1792)

Death year is obviously a typo.

Thanks for reporting this. I've corrected the {{short description}} which had the incorrect date. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 15:42, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Additional External Links

Video on YouTube: Metamorphose (link not permitted). "... documentary about M.C. Escher' life produced by CINEMEDIA in co-production with Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and Radio Netherlands Television (RNTV) in 1999." I'd be happy to see an External Link to this. Thanks. Marty Mangold (talk) 02:44, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On the whole we try both to minimise lists in External links, and to avoid linking to videos. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:43, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 27 March 2023

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Under section titled “Mathematically Inspired Work”, please change the word “disconnect” in “Escher's work is inescapably mathematical. This has caused a disconnect…” to the word “disconnection”. “Disconnect” is a verb; “disconnection” is the noun that should be used here. 2600:6C4E:1400:BBE:C141:7192:2FB0:E635 (talk) 04:26, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. However in the USA, Merriam-Webster for instance lists it also as a noun, with definition and example, and it gives a specific sense which is correctly used here. In the UK, Cambridge Dictionary does the same. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Counterchange symmetry or antisymmetry

Unless others disagree, I propose to add a link from "counterchange symmetry or antisymmetry" in the Legacy: in mathematics and science section, to the newly created article Dichromatic symmetry. GreatStellatedDodecahedron (talk) 13:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seems good! Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:58, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free images, and the reverting of good-faith edits

This revert has no basis on the grounds of Wikipedia's guidelines, far less on copyright law and even less on basic editorial standards. The argument that an article on an artist may only obliquely point to said artist's own works is nonsense if a single hyperlink to the same website is deemed acceptable. Pinging Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) as more of a courtesy that I was afforded: I don't appreciate large swatches of productive edits being summarily reverted without so much as a ping, and will be restoring the edited content sans a very good argument to the contrary. If a couple of image tags need to be left out then so be it but reverting the entire thing was egrecious. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 00:08, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]