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However, Wikipedia fairly often writes about current events. As a result, an event may happen on Monday afternoon, may be written about in Tuesday morning's newspapers, and may be added to Wikipedia just minutes later. Many editors—especially those with no training in historiography—call these newspaper articles "secondary sources", by which they mean "please don't delete this article" sources.
Typically, very recent newspaper articles are mis-labeled as a "secondary source" during AFDs, by way of trying to finesse [[WP:GNG|the general notability guideline's]] requirement that secondary sources exist, when no true secondary sources actually exist. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find true secondary sources for [[WP:MILL|run-of-the-mill events]] and [[breaking news]]. Typically, editors are willing to overlook this error for recent events. However, once a couple of years have passed, if no true secondary sources can be found, the article is usually deleted.
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