Talk:Ian Buruma

message: Is Buruma a typical Dutch name? Is it a Japanization of his actual name (like the way Alex becomes Arekusu/アレクス)? Is it even his real name at all? Sounds just like the Japanese word for bloomers - ブルマ/buruma. LordAmeth (talk) 10:59, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But how does one pronounce it? In English?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.10.174.252 (talk) 16:53, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Why or why not?  108.195.138.124 (talk) 05:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't mean what you think it means.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 06:13, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Megalomania, mindreading or unproven clairvoyance again?  99.181.153.18 (talk) 05:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Projection?  And our "article" (public intellectual) doesn't mean what the word might mean in this article. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 07:08, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikink (descriptive) [[public intellectual]]? 

message: The statement under "Scholarship" ("Buruma argues for wholehearted British participation in the European Union because they are the "strongest champions in Europe of a liberal approach to commerce and politics") appears to be opinion rather than scholarship.   konetidy (talk) 11:12, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Scholarship" 

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message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: While I would prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules referred to above, the Wikipedia Manual of Style at WP:MOS requires "title case".  I will make changes accordingly. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:42, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: I found the phrase "Buruma defended his decision to give Ghomeshi a platform for these claims" tendentious, since Buruma's stated purpose was definitely not to assist Ghomeshi in any claims that purported to downsize the number of accusations. Therefore I have removed the words "for these claims." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Retal (talk • contribs) 18:35, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  tendentious phrase 

message: Regarding this edit, it would not be clear to readers what the Abraham Kuyper Prize actually is, nor why it would be encyclopedically significant. Obviously it's named after Abraham Kuyper, but since he died in 1920 and the award was created in 1998, this name itself is almost meaningless. We would still need context from a reliable, independent source. I will note that the award has since moved from Princeton to the Di Vries Global Institute for Global Faculty Development at Calvin University. The common convention on Wikipedia for awards is to cite WP:IS for any award which lacks its own article, although even then it's still better to provide context. Grayfell (talk) 00:31, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abraham Kuyper Prize