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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 17:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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This page should be deleted for the simple reason that this individual is not notable, as shown by the dearth of coverage by reliable sources. There is one CNN piece which covered a comment made by Ronan in a debate that CNN happened to air. There is an Al Jazeera interview with Ronan. Other than that, there are no reliable sources. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 20:23, 20 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 15:44, 21 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 15:44, 21 November 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete. Being a non-winning candidate for chair of a political party is not an automatic notability freebie per WP:NPOL, but this article neither makes any claim of preexisting notability for any other reason nor sources his candidacy for DNC chair well enough to suggest that it should be considered a special case over and above most other non-winning candidacies. It depends too strongly on primary sources, student media and activist blogs, and the few sources that actually pass our reliable sourcing standards do not represent an unusual volume of coverage that would make his candidacy more notable than usual. And none of his other competitors who also lost that race are considered notable because of that fact, either — Keith Ellison and Pete Buttigieg and Raymond Buckley have articles because they already held other notable offices before running for DNC chair, not because they ran for DNC chair and lost. Bearcat ( talk) 17:42, 21 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete being a candidate for various offices, but loosing, does not make one notable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 03:28, 25 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete - Largely per Bearcat. I can't find any significant coverage of the person to meet WP:GNG, and is not notable by WP:NPOL. -- Ajraddatz ( talk) 20:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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