Removal of `meta name="author"`

[danielhaim1]

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I've removed the <meta name="author" /> tag from template.html

The reasons are is that this specific meta tag has been dropped back in 2014. The correct way to use the authorship tag is through the rel="author" tag,

Example:

<a href="/authorname/archive" rel="author">Author Name</a>

However, the meta name="author" is primarily used as citation

<meta name="citation_title" content="Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin" />
<meta name="citation_publication_date" content="1999" />
<meta name="citation_author" content="Murakami, Midori" />
<meta name="citation_author" content="Kouyama, Tsutomu" />
<meta name="citation_pdf_url" content="crist_struct.pdf" />

Sources:

• Special tags currently supported by Google
• Moz on "author" tag
• Google Authorship Markup
• Google Scholar Metadata & the author tag

[benbalter]

Since this would theoretically be a breaking change, or at least would require downstream users to know to add a href with the necessary rel parameter, would changing the meta to a link (with the rel parameter) work? (A cursory search suggests the rel=author tag can be a link doesn't have to be an a tag)

[danielhaim1]

I'll research today and get back to you @benbalter