Talk:Alfonso Navarro

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I am removing the notability notice for Father Alfonso Navarro until the rationale for non-notability is explained. After all, the onus should be on the parties proposing that the entry be removed. Since I am removing the notability notice, it is appropriate to explain why I feel that the notice cannot be justified. First, I question the arbitrariness or otherwise questionable motive for posting the notice. Is the notice based on the fact that Father Navarro is a not an American or widely known in the U.S.? That cannot be a proper basis, because Wikipedia is international in scope. Is the notice based on the fact that Father Navarro is most important to a small, third world, non-White country? Clearly a racist, anti-Catholic, or even ethno-centric, motive would not be an appropriate basis for posting the notice. Is the notice based on the fact that Father Navarro was not a public official or politician? Father Navarro was an activist, and is now viewed as a martyr and folk hero, much like Bobby Sands, and if the European folk hero Sands is "notable" (and this writer believes that he certainly is), then Father Navarro must be held to a similar standard and thus be held in the same regard.

On the affirmative case for deeming Father Navarro to be notable, I point to the fact that Father Navarro was included by the Salvadoran Catholic Church among its official list of "Martyrs" submitted to the Vatican on the occasion of the 2000 Jubilee. Father Navarro was deemed to be imporant enough to be the subject of an investigation and report by the Organization of American States. Father Navarro was also the subject of a book, MEMORIA PELIGROSA ("Dangerous Memories"). These elements, in addition to the widespread noteriety of Navarro's murder in El Salvador and at an international level fulfill the notability requirements in Wikipedia's guidance on that subject and therefore the notability notice posted for Father Navarro in April 2007 will be removed, with an instruction that it not be reinstated without a showing that overcomes the arguments stated herein.

Alfonso Navarro www.martires.8m.com/alfonso.html http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/martirologio/ficha.php?codigo=389

Lista Oficial de Mártires salvadoreños enviada al Vaticano http://www.uca.edu.sv/publica/cartas/ci451.html

Subject of an OAS report, Case 2336 http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/ElSalvador78eng/chap.2.htm

MEMORIA PELIGROSA, Héroes y Mártires en la Iglesia Latinoamericana, José Marins, Teolide M. Trevisan, Carolee Chanona, Ediciones CRT, Serie Pastoral, http://galeon.hispavista.com/sanjudas_engpenl//Html/biografias/InmacCorazon/alfonsonavarro.htm Carlos_X 22:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)