Article declares an author

What this check means

Checks that a page presenting itself as an article names its author in machine-readable form.

Why it matters

Attribution is part of what makes a claim quotable. A system deciding whether to cite a piece of writing wants to know who stands behind it, and a name in the byline image or in prose alone is not something it can rely on.

How we detect it

We only judge pages that declare themselves articles, via og:type or Article schema. On those we look for an author in JSON-LD, or a meta author tag.

How to fix it

Add an "author" property to your Article schema, naming a Person or Organization.

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