Removed support for meta author
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## Summary Removed `<meta name="author" />` tag 1. `<meta name="author" />` has been dropped back in 2014. 2. `<meta name="author" />` is used incorrectly in the template. ## Further information: - [Special tags currently supported by Google](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en) - [Moz on "author" tag, listed under "Bad Metas"](https://moz.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-seo-meta-tags) - [Google Authorship Markup](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2011/06/authorship-markup-and-web-search.html) - [Google Scholar Metadata & the `author` tag](https://www.monperrus.net/martin/accurate+bibliographic+metadata+and+google+scholar ) The correct way to use the `authorship` tag is: ``` <a href="/authorname/archive" rel="author">Author Name</a> ``` or when citing a source: ``` <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" /> ``` This is directly related to an outdated pull jekyll#363
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Summary
Removed
<meta name="author" />tag<meta name="author" />has been dropped back in 2014.<meta name="author" />is used incorrectly in the template.Further information:
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This is directly related to an outdated pull #363