DharmaDictionary Conventions

DharmaDictionary.net is an online open-content collaborative Tibetan-English Dictionary/Dharma encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups who are developing a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows the translators of the present day with an Internet connection and World Wide Web browser to alter its content.

Please be advised that it is the responsoibility of this Circle of Lotsawas to maintain the level of expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

You will find much valuable and accurate information in DharmaDictionary.net. However, we cannot guarantee the validity of all the information found here. The content of a given article may be changed, or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. To make a paragraph "hands off" to other editors, please sign it with your name inside square brackets.

No formal peer review

(Copied from Wikipedia, to be edited:) We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles. Our active community of editors uses tools such as the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Wikipedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

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No contract; limited license

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Trademarks

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Jurisdiction and legality of content

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Not professional advice

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While other encyclopedias, unlike Wikipedia, are professionally peer reviewed, they still do not guarantee their content.

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