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Make a Correction Reach the Person Responsible
The authorship update connects article bylines, contact details and structured data so a reader can trace an explanation to its editor without confusing it with an official source.
In brief
The October authorship update gives the site's editorial explanations a consistent, visible owner. Article bylines link to the local Contact page, and structured data identifies the same person. That gives a reader a practical route for raising a correction while retaining the official sources behind the holiday data.
Give the explanation an accountable author
A generated table and the paragraph beside it do different jobs. The table presents data; the paragraph explains what the reader might do with it. Both need checking, but a government source for the dates cannot also be treated as the author of this site's planning suggestions.
The earlier seasonal review had already exposed this distinction: correct stored dates did not prevent an error in hand-written copy. The new byline treatment makes editorial responsibility easier to follow. The person named on an article is connected to the site's own Contact page, where the reader can find the editorial and corrections address.
That local step matters. A bare author name is difficult to act on; a generic link to another website can leave the reader wondering where a correction belongs. The Contact page explains whose work this is and provides a route for the specific site.
Run author alignment after generation
The July accountability release had already established a shared publisher identity. October added a more specific maintenance requirement: each editorial byline must lead to its own site contact page. The alignment tool is a named post-generation step, so a rebuild can repeat that treatment rather than rely on a one-off repair to exported HTML.
The tool calculates the relative route from each page to the correct contact destination. The rollout also checked idempotence: a second representative pass made no further change. That is a useful maintenance property because running a repair step again should not accumulate duplicate bylines or keep rewriting already-correct pages.
The Editorial Standards still govern how sources and generated explanations are reviewed. Naming an editor supplies accountability; it supplies no new evidence for a particular holiday, ranking or calculation.
Measure the change it actually made
This was an identity and navigation release. It did not change the calendar engine, establish a new holiday date or demonstrate an improvement in search traffic. Those claims would require their own checks and, for traffic, a comparable measurement period.
The calculator remains the place to test a plan. The technical lesson is about maintaining its surrounding explanations: carry the author and contact treatment through generation, then verify the saved page and the public destination. A correction should not depend on the reader guessing who is responsible.