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AFDs require showing that topics meet [[WP:GNG|the general notability guideline's]] requirement that secondary sources exist. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find secondary sources other than contemporary news accounts for [[WP:MILL|run-of-the-mill events]] and [[breaking news]]. Once a couple of years have passed, if no true secondary sources can be found, the article is usually deleted.
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The term "news-reporting media" is used here in the sense of actual [[newspaper|newspapers]] and other media reporting news in a manner similar to newspapers.
One rough rule of thumb for identifying primary sources is this: if the source is noticeably closer to the event than you are, then it's a primary source. For example, if an event occurred on January 1, 1800, and a newspaper article appeared about it the next day, then historians considers the newspaper article a primary source.
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