Talk:Brunei/Archive 2

Concerning to the map in ASEAN (I can add a larger dot if editors think it looks too small, as in the case of Singapore)
Brunei is a small country, so it may be barely visible in this map (and the same concern I have about Singapore, so I'll also edit this comment in the Singapore article Talk Page). If the editors about Brunei have any problem with it, I can add a quite larger dot on Brunei's location (and the same is applyable to Singapore). Thanks for reading and for suggestions. Mondolkiri1 (talk) 3:11, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Help for Tourism in Brunei
I have created and nominated Tourism in Brunei for DYK. You can see nomination of article here. Article has some issues mentioned in that nomination, if anyone is interested in fixing issues of article then kindly fix it so that article will feature on the main page of Wikipedia. Your name will be added as author of article. Thank you. -- Human 3015   TALK   19:37, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2016
(Malay: Negara BFabian de Jong Darussalam, Jawi: نڬارا بروني دارالسلام‎, Chinese: 文莱达鲁萨兰国), is a sovereign state... Brunei is the only sovereign state "Please change sovereign state to sovereign State"```` State is representative of an independent government as Brunei is

Zerowolf87 (talk) 18:27, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Common nouns like "state" are generally not capitalized in English, and Brunei is not the only sovereign state on Earth. Thanks, /wiae /tlk  19:43, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Geography now
Geography now is youtube channel that makes great videos on all the offical UN members in alfebetical order starting with Afghanistan and currenty at Egypt Can we put their videos in the external links segments of the respective pages. Lottery winner (talk) 10:08, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2017
According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_area ...Brunei is ranked 168th as Total area, not 172th. 88.147.58.14 (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 5 September 2017
There's a rather nasty spelling error in the caption of the map figure in section 2.2 (War with Spain and Decline). I can't edit it, so can someone change the 'lose' in 'Brunei territorial lose from 1400 to 1890' to 'loss'? Caslavcuperlovic (talk) 13:17, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Well spotted! I think "losses" is a bit clearer, so I've changed it to that. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:24, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 9 January 2018
the box v3 should be here AyyyyMeme (talk) 12:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 11 January 2019
Words are backwards. Make them forwards again. 197.149.29.170 (talk) 17:18, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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Can't edit?
Hi I feel more information about the new Shariah laws coming into effect could be added to the 21st century section. I found this source, I can't seem to edit the page though? Here's the source. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/brunei-brings-in-death-by-stoning-as-punishment-for-gay-sex — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hans RayBan (talk • contribs) 13:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, information on this page already mentions the laws, including the death by stoning that is in that article title. CMD (talk) 05:41, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

In the 4th paragraph from the top it it mentioned that Brunei is one of two countries that have 0 public debt. The other is given as Libya. However that is out of date. Libya is not doing so well these days, so that should be deleted.


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The article actually says "in 2011 [...] Brunei was one of two countries (the other being Libya)" (emphasis mine). NiciVampireHeart 21:51, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2019
"Brunei's dominance in the Philippines was also challenged by two kingdoms, the Sultanate of Cebu and Butuan which were also coincidentally allied with Kutai and were also at war with Brunei's dependencies; Sulu and Manila as well as their mutual ally, the Sultanate of Maguindanao."

Please omit "Indianized" as the two Sultanate kingdoms of Cebu and Butuan were not Indianized but rather distinct or unique from other kingdoms. We can conclude that it is actually "Philipinized". It is actually called "Sultanate" not Rajahanate. Ex. Sultanate of Cebu and Butuan. Ffrank03 (talk) 18:53, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source for this? CMD (talk) 04:50, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 07 July 2019
In the LGBT rights section it says "However, as of 6 May 2019 Sultan of Brunei in his titah for Ramadan declared that Brunei will not imposed Penal Code of the Sharia Law"

"imposed" as past test is wrong, it should just be "impose" --81.108.53.238 (talk) 20:37, 7 July 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅. Surachit (talk) 23:33, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Independence section, last paragraph
The language of this section feels poorly constructed, subjective and potentially misleading. Not up to encyclopedic standards. Hoping someone can revise:

Relations with the Philippines which Brunei has been in a love-hate dynamic with due to the constant wars they waged against each other, in their territories; like when Arab led Malay-Bruneians destroyed Panay's Court of Nobles and in some time later, Spanish lead Latinos and Filipinos burned Brunei's Great Mosque, historically, was then symbolically patched up when Filipino Visayan architect Leandro V. Locsin, helped design and build the Istana Nurul Iman Palace, a name taken from Malay Istana and Arabic Nur-ol Imaan and means Palace of the Light of Faith which is now the largest residential Palace in the world."[74] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.199.185.106 (talk) 17:23, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Added governmental form to lead
I added a sentence to the lead describing the government. "The government is an absolute monarchy under the Sultan which implements sharia law and directs Islamic practices." Please explain here if you believe this is incorrect or doesn't belong.— Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 16:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

edit request
In the main section, the article states, "Brunei has the second-highest Human Development Index among the Southeast Asian nations, after Singapore, and is classified as a developing country." In the Economy section, "Brunei has the second-highest Human Development Index among the Southeast Asian nations, after Singapore, and is classified as a developed country." I believe it should be "developed" in both spots. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.23.5.129 (talk) 05:17, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done, changed to developed. CMD (talk) 15:45, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2021
I suggest removing English from the Recognized Languages category as it is unnecessary, and only display Malay as the only official sole language of Brunei. Ruse998 (talk) 02:14, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The current inclusion is supported by a source. CMD (talk) 02:42, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion for section on science and technology
Hi, just a suggestion, many country articles have sections or subsections for 'science and technology', this could be a section on this article as well. John Cummings (talk) 10:53, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Mongol invasion of Brunei
I have a bit contention here with the statement, “ Marco Polo suggested in his memoirs that the Great Khan or the ruler of the Mongol Empire, attempted and failed many times in invading "Great Java" which was the European name for Bruneian controlled Borneo.”

The source linked to Robert Nicholl arguments which then dependant on Marco Polo accounts after that one attack to current Java in 1292-1293, he suggests that several attacks had been made on "Java the Great", but all to no purpose. Here Nicholl argues “Java the Great” could have been Borneo instead.

I think this is a bit of a stretch in that, Nicholl is wrong in that there were other Mongol attacks made toward Java and was recorded by the Javanese. One particular attack was defeated at sea by Arya Dikara a Majapahit naval commander based on Butak inscription dated 1294. Marco Polo could have been talking about these attacks. Ludovico di Varthema visited Borneo and used the correct term as mentioned by Nicholl, which is baffling why would then he used "Great Java" to describe a different island he visited afterward. Rather than the explanation being that European travelers at this time have the misconception that Java is the largest island in the world, hence the name "Great Java".

Robert Nicholl view that Mongol attacked Brunei is not a mainstream view by historians. "Great Java" is also mostly accepted to refer to Java.

I would have love for more sources particularly from Bruneian side whether they have been attacked by Mongol, to supplement this event. As of now, this is supposition by Nicholl and the sentence should have been worded differently or removed. 111.220.69.27 (talk) 21:40, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2022
173.34.82.193 (talk) 22:02, 8 June 2022 (UTC) Add the most famous bruneian person as the boxes
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Sharia Law and Brunei : Needs to be updated
Under the History section, 'The 21st Century' subsection mentions the future implementation of Sharia Law which is backed up by outdated references. Now that it has long been implemented, I would recommend updating this subsection with recent links, such as these article from Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brunei-lgbt-un-idUSKCN1RF2ED and https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brunei-islamiclaws-idUSKCN1RB0E1 Wpakxl (talk) 20:18, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Add Singapore Dollar to Currencies
Brunei and Singapore have an agreement which allows the circulation of both currencies in both countries. 82.14.227.184 (talk) 08:55, 8 February 2023 (UTC)