Someone translated one of my articles.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Alexandre KOWALCZYK: Someone just translated one of my article in chinese and made a link to my original article at the end.
  
  Should I ask it to be removed or is it good?
  Can it hurt SEO ranking (duplicate content)  ; ?
  Should I accept or refuse the pingback to appear on my site? ;
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  SEMXE: Ask them to make use of canonical tag on their website with your article's URL in it.
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  Edwin Jonk: Depends on the translation. If it is auto-translated (like Google translate), than it is considered duplicated content. Else if it is unique high quality translation it is not duplicated content.
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  Glenn B: Alexandre, my first thought was "did you ask, or give permission for the translation?" Is this an imposition on your intellectual copyright etc. A few things to consider here. ;
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  Alexandre KOWALCZYK: +Glenn B ;I didn't ask anything and nobody contacted me. I just discovered that someone did it thanks to wordpress pingback. I don't really know what I can do, or how to react.