[Developers] Refactoring appointees out of Government Position Held

[Jeff Prucher]

The Government Position Held CVT includes a property for "appointed by" that expects the "political appointer" type.  This is creating a lot of problematic data because the Government Position Held schema only really works with legislatures and executive positions (president, prime minister, monarch, etc.), but users are putting in people appointed to cabinets, ministries, departments, agencies, embassies, and similar types of entities.
To deal with this, we'd like to remove the "appointed by" property entirely, and use a new schema to deal with all kinds of appointments (including, but not limited to government).

The new appointments schema is currently in a base, but will be promoted to the commons as part of this refactoring: http://appointments.freebase.com/.

Please speak up if this will affect any of your projects.

Jeff