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June 2

Major magazines and national newspapers - searching backcopies

Where do I look for back copies featuring particular topics including events listings? Radio or TV listing descriptions and film screening details might help. I'm finding charity newsletters reporting on their own events (no exceptional claims but still removed). This is for sources for awareness day /week / month pages on WP so needs to meet WP:RS. Particular examples are International May 12th Awareness Day (see edit history), Mosquito Awareness Week (began 2016) and Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program (began 1994). These all link to specific dates so the difficulty is in finding reference to the date. Amousey (talk) 00:44, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

@Amousey: Try Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, which will then let you find specific issues that cover the topic you are looking for. Paper copies of the Guide are usually available at libraries, and it looks like it is online also. Big libraries will have back copies of major magazines and newspapers, and if you don't have access to a library that does, the ask at WP:RX. RudolfRed (talk) 01:50, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: That's great. Thank you. Amousey (talk) 11:17, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Here's one very good resource which you can often access through your public library [1]. 62.30.198.76 (talk) 13:16, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't have access via a library and it looks like it's only usable from home with paid access. Amousey (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Partners

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Which articles deal with how humans select romantic partners? Benjamin (talk) 01:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

If you google "wikipedia mate selection", several articles come up, and you could review them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:22, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Which one in particular? To be clear, I'm asking romantic partners, not sexual reproduction or evolution. Benjamin (talk) 02:46, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

You asked for a list of articles. That would be a good start. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:03, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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Which articles deal with how humans select romantic partners? To be clear, I'm asking romantic partners, as distinct from sexual reproduction and evolution, but I'm also wondering how they're related, and how they overlap. Benjamin (talk) 02:57, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Engagement, Dating, Romance (love), Interpersonal compatibility, Arranged marriage, Interpersonal attraction. That's a start. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:14, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Next, check out 'See also' links at bottom of those articles ... then down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. 107.15.157.44 (talk) 05:02, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

If the question is about falling/being in love, see Infatuation and Limerence. I think that it is ill understood how and why someone develops a strong romantic attraction to a specific person (and not to another one, seemingly equally desirable as a partner). Sure, there are many common-sense factors that may play a role, but very many instances do not conform to any of these, or merely kick the can down the road.  --Lambiam 16:15, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

I, for one, hope that "Science" never finds the answer to this eternal mystery. 2606:A000:1126:28D:88D5:A337:269B:FEDC (talk) 03:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

European MPs elected from Canada and elsewhere

Are France, Portugal and Italy the only nations that has MPs being elected from different nations like Canada and others and as well as has citizens living outside their nation that can vote in the federal election? Donmust90 (talk) 17:05, 2 June 2020 (UTC)Donmust90Donmust90 (talk) 17:05, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure I follow. Bonar Law was a British Prime Minister (and also MP) who was born in (what is now) Canada. He's the only Canadian born, UK Prime Minister I can think of. Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat in the British parliament, was born in the U.S. The UK has has other foreign-born MPs as well. I don't know enough about foreign-born MPs or equivalents in the European Parliament or in the legislatures of other European parliaments, but I suspect you'd find a smattering of foreign-born MPs elected to various national European legislatures, especially from former colonies (like in the case of Law, who was born in Canada before Dominion Day, and thus born on fully-British soil). --Jayron32 18:07, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, as was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who served as MP in the Dutch parliament.  --Lambiam 18:43, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes. --Jayron32 05:16, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Picking nits, aren't we? Although the title talks about European MP's, the question itself asks about "nations" without geographic restriction, so the title can reflect a presumption that among all nations, the only ones that have foreign-born MP's are European. The French parliament is also not called parliament in French, but Parlement français, and the Portuguese parliament is the Assembleia da República. So if we are going to be that strict, the UK is the only sovereign European country that has a parliament. But it is common in English to refer to the Dutch parliament as the Dutch Parliament, and to Ayaan Hirsi Ali as having served as a Member of the Dutch Parliament.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lambiam (talk • contribs) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't think the other responders here get Donmust's question - basically, some countries have parliamentary constituencies representing territories outsides their own territorial sovereignity. Portugal has a constituency names "Europe" (2 seats) and "Out of Europe" (2 seats). Italy has 4 parliamentary constituencies for Italians abroad, electing 15 MPs. France has 11 parliamentary constituencies electing representatives of French citizens abroad. Many, many countries allow citizens abroad to vote (usually at embassies), but rather few have designated representation for overseas citizens. --Soman (talk) 22:24, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the new information. I have slightly amended my initial answer to make it more accurate based on your corrections. --Jayron32 05:16, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't think making this modification [26] [27] with only this note which doesn't really make it clear what you modified, was really fair considering Lambian's reply. I'd suggest you use <del> or collapse your original reply or something in the future. Nil Einne (talk) 10:25, 3 June 2020 (UTC) And whoopise seems I made a reverse diff in my initial reply, now fixed. 15:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

The relevant Wikipedia article is Overseas constituency. Hack (talk) 05:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Boris Johnson, a quite well known MP was born in New York City although he has fairly recently renounced his USA citizenship. Hayttom (talk) 18:48, 7 June 2020 (UTC)