Wikipedia:Peer review/Research and Analysis Wing/archive1

Research and Analysis Wing
There seems to be a lot of controversy regarding the successes and failure of the Research and Analysis Wing, as with all the intelligence agencies around the world, functioning of RAW is highly classified and hence exact details is not known. This gives rise to surmises and propaganda campaigns. Please do let us know your views on the article and if possible any interesting snippets of info which can be included.-- Legaleagle86 15:48, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation
It appears that a good deal of the article's content was lifted directly from. The previous version of the article has fairly little content and cited no references. NatusRoma | Talk 19:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Too much of copyright infringement

 * The article has far too many copyright infringements, that will be deleted in due course. Please write something that is original and does not violates copyrights. See Copyrights for details. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 10:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

An announcement
Hello friends, I have already asked for the permission of the defence journal editor for the use of the public domain article with few minor & major modifications till any reply is received from the editor I think the matter should be viewed as in the realm of implied consent. A copy of the letter is also attached with for the pursual of the members.

email:defjrnl@pathfinder9.com

To, The Editor, Defence Journal, Karachi.

Ref: Request for permission to use materials from article.

Dear Sir,

I am presently writing an article on the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) at a free-content web project. I came across an excellent article in the 'public domain'-archive section titled "Raw at War-Genesis of Secret Agencies in Ancient India" written by Columnist Gp Capt SM HALI. The web address for the same is http://www.defencejournal.com/feb-mar99/raw-at-war.htm I shall appreciate you if you kindly allow me to base my arguements on the points raised by Gp Capt SM HALI in his article. Hope to get your kind approval soon.

Hope this will satisfy the copyright issue. Legaleagle86 11:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

This won't help
Getting a "yes" for the permission letter stated above won't help. At best, you would be able to cite the web link mentioned (not place a transcript of the content on Wikipedia). Even if the permission to copy the content, if the permission goes like "you may use" or "Wikipedia may use", it won't help. You will need a permission that explicitly states that anyone can use it for any purpose, including commercial re-distribution and modifications, only then will the use be allowed on Wikipedia. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 11:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I am working on it Legaleagle86 04:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)