Article does not declare its author or publication date
The page presents itself as an article but lacks machine-readable author, publication-date, or both signals in the scanned markup.
Why it matters
Attribution and dates help readers understand who produced a page and when it was published. They should represent real authorship and real publication information.
How ShipReady detects it
What it inspects
ShipReady examines fetched HTML for a page-level article declaration through og:type=article or a page-level schema.org Article-family type. It then checks page-level structured data and article metadata for author and publication-date signals.
What triggers a finding
The rule triggers only when the page itself declares that it is an article and one or both signals are absent. It does not infer article status from a URL path or nested article entries in a catalogue.
What the evidence shows
The scanned markup declared the page as an article but did not contain the specific missing author or date signals recognized by the rule.
Limits of this check
The scanner does not judge author identity, date accuracy, visible byline quality, content freshness, or whether search engines will cite the page. It recognizes only the supported metadata and page-level structured-data signals in fetched HTML.
How to fix it
Add truthful article attribution
Add the real author and publication date to the page's article metadata or page-level structured data. Show equivalent attribution visibly when it helps readers.
Maintain dates deliberately
Use a real publication date and update modified dates only for substantive revisions. Do not invent dates to satisfy a scanner.
How to verify the change
Inspect the rendered article markup
View the deployed HTML and confirm the page-level article object and metadata contain the real author and publication date.
Expected: The article declares the required signals at page level and visible attribution agrees with the markup.