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Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia:Plato.stanford.edu DENIED

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Dear Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia Team, and William,

The SEP can not afford to give permission to the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia to put a copy of Wainwright's entry on your web site. We have good reasons for this: actions like this negatively affect the long-term survival of the SEP. The long-term survival of the SEP depends in part on the impact it has. The greater its impact, the more libraries will join to support it. If you were to put an exact duplicate of our entry on your server, you would diminish our impact in several ways. First, not as many people would be accessing our servers. This reduced access count on our server logs would indicate that we are having less of an impact. Second, people would be able to create links to the page on your server, whereas those should be links to the page on our server. This reduces our impact at Google, which ranks our page (on a list of matches to a keyword search) on the basis of how many links there are to it on the web. Google has become a de facto measure of authoritativeness on the web. In addition to these problems, you also make it more difficult to assess the particular impact your entry is having, since we can no longer easily count and compile all the accesses to it.

There are other problems as well, such as introducing an unnecessary second "citation path"; if one could cite the entry in two different servers, there would be confusion---it is the same in both places? Moreover, "re-publication" of Wainwright's entry on other web servers does not make it more accessible. Everyone on the web can access our servers, which are available 24/7/365, and we have 3 mirror sites also available 24/7/365.

However, let me say a couple of things that you can do: (1) you can create a link from your Encyclopedia web site to link to Wainwright's page, and (2) if you agree to the conditions appended below, you would be allowed to publish a *translation* of Wainwright's entry in your Encyclopedia.

I hope you find all this reasonable.
Thanks for your understanding.
All the best,
Yours,
Ed


Edward N. Zalta http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
Principal Editor Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
CSLI/Ventura Hall editors@plato.stanford.edu
Stanford University ph. 650-723-0488
Stanford, CA 94305-4115 fx. 650-725-2166


Here are the conditions you must agree to if you want to publish a translation of W. Wainwright's entry on Concepts of God from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

1) We need to know the name and homepage URL of the website where you will publish the translation online. Your translation will presumably be one of the pages on that website.

2) Please note that our permission constitutes a license to publish a translation of an SEP entry at a single URL (i.e., from one location only on the web). This license will not transfer any copyright to you, but only serve as your authorization to put a translation of an SEP entry on the web.

3) The translation must be a translation of one of the *archived* versions of the entry. Although you have requested permission to translate

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concept-god/

we can only give you permission to translate one of the *archived* versions, for example:

http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/concepts-god/

The reason for this should be clear. The former may change (since the authors may update the piece), whereas the latter will not change. So, you will need to translate a version that won't change.

4) The webpage displaying the translation should (a) link to the original, (b) provide the proper citation to it, and (c) thank the Editors for granting permission. In regards to (a), you will need to include a direct link from the translation to

http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/concepts-god/

Moreover, concerning (b), you will need to comply with our citation guidelines at the page:

http://plato.stanford.edu/cite.html

In regards to (c), the usual language will suffice, but we suggest something like the following, in which the bracketed items are links:

The following is the translation of an Professor Wainwright's entry on Concepts of God in the [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]. The translation follows the version of the entry in the SEP's archives at [1]. This translated version may differ from the current version of the entry, which may have been updated since the time of this translation. The current version is located at [2]. We'd like to thank the Editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for granting permission to translate and to publish this entry on the web.


5) You agree not to publish your translation until such time as we have checked that it is a good one. That means that you must notify us and the author(s) when the translation is ready, and give the SEP editors and the author the chance to review the translation before putting it online. This reviewal process may take 1-2 months, since it may take some time for us to find an academic expert with fluent in the language of translation, who can determine that your translation is a faithful one. You will need to specify who did the translation, so we may keep a record. You may not publish the translation until we have determined that the translation is a good one and we send you confirmation that you are then authorized to publish.

6) If the author(s) or editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy determine that any or part of the translation is, in their judgment, not an accurate representation of the original, you will be offered the chance to correct the translation according to their or our specifications. Again, if the translation is not corrected to our satisfaction, you agree not to publish it.

7) If we authorize you that the translation is acceptable for publication, then should it subsequently come to light, after you publish the translation, that a passage is still in error, you agree to work with us to correct the translation or remove the entry from the web until such time as the matter is resolved.

8) You agree to notify us, after we have checked the translation when you put the translation online, and send us the exact URL of the webpage containing the translation.

We you find these conditions reasonable ones. They are designed to protect the integrity of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and its good name.