Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacques Hamel
Although I routinely iVote to merge articles on both perp and victim of incidents of this sort back into main article.  Sometimes, however, a victim can become notable after his death.  In this case, this does seem to be the first Catholic priest murdered in Europe, at the altar, while saying mass by an Islamist militant. (Formal recognition by the church and informal veneration by the faithful is almost certain to follow, but  is irrelevant to this discussion.)  What is causing me to iVote to keep is the coverage of this man's life. Thoroughly post-Christian major international media  NYTimes, CNN http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/07/26/iaw-amanpour-france-church-attack-priest.cnn  The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/father-jacques-hamel-normandy-france-a-good-priest-who-did-his-job-to-the-very-end  are running long profiles.  So, he passes  .  Even before you get to the fact that his death is already being used as a marker of the fact that church in Europe may require the sort of constant, armed guards and security checks that were forced on synagogues in Europe by circumstances a few years ago, see, for example, ''Murder of French priest opens a new frontier for Catholic church,'' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/jacques-hamel-killing-challenge-pope-francis-catholic-church in The Guardian, there are similar articles in other papers, but for the Guardian to be concerned about protecting the church is an indication of how notable Father Hamel has become in death
— User:E, 12:02, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CRYSTAL||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)