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With all respect to Denny, whose contributions to our work are immense, no members of the board are "community selected"; the community recommends, and the individuals recommended are then appointed, or not, by the board - and, as we saw with Doc James, may as easily be removed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Andy, I know that.

It's why I wrote "one of three community-selected members accepted on the board that year"). The community does select candidates which then may or may not be accepted on the board. Then again, there's no harm in being more explicit, so I've edited the sentence to replace "selected" with "recommended". --Andreas JN 466 11:58, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It occurs to me that meta:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats may be a misnomer, really, as those "selected" candidates are probably also subject to the sitting board members' approval, and are thus nothing but recommendations ... Andreas JN 466 12:04, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Denny voted to remove Doc James, a fellow "community selected" board member. For that reason, I'm not sorry to see him leave. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:33, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]