title: Structured-Data > Microdata > Schema > Article > Author Itemscope > Properties > Google Validation Error
body: <p>I am developing my own site locally. This is my first site so I am a relative 'noob'.</p>
  
  <p>I have begun the process of marking up my site with the microdata format using the schema.org vocabulary.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Google's structured data tester to test my microdata markup. </p>
  
  <p>On a webpage I have marked up an article.</p>
  
  <p><strong>THE PROBLEM</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am getting errors for all <code>properties</code> for a <code>person itemscope</code> successfully connected to the <code>article itemscope</code>. It does not matter how the person is linked, whether as <code>author</code> or <code>creator</code> or otherwise.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I link a <code>person</code> to the <code>article</code> using the <code>author</code> property and try to then mark up their name with the <code>name</code> property, it gives a red error roughly like so:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>!
    <a href="http://www.example.com/name" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/name</a>:  Name</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Where the property name is the cited in a url/property format, and where 'Name' is the property value I actually want.</p>
  
  <p>If I then click on the error message, it says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The property <a href="http://www.example.com/name" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/name</a> is not recognised by Google
    for an object of type Thing.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It is otherwise:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>showing the other article properties fine; and</li>
  <li>creating an person-type property for the article fine (eg author, creator, etc); and</li>
  <li>creating name:value pairs for properties of the person (eg name).</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But it just doesn't recognise the properties of the person. </p>
  
  <p><strong>MARKUP SAMPLE</strong></p>
  
  <p>Here is a sample of how I am marking it up:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  
  ...
  
  &lt;div itemprop="hasPart" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"&gt;
  
      &lt;h1 itemprop="headline name"&gt;
          Awesome Things
      &lt;/h1&gt;
  
      &lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;
          Blah blah blah  ... FLUFFY KITTENS ... blah blah blah ... DONUTS ... blah blah blah ... COFFEE!!! ...
  
          AUTHOR:                     
          &lt;span itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemptype="https://schema.org/Person"&gt;
              &lt;span itemprop="name"&gt;
                  Joe Blogs-a-Lot
              &lt;/span&gt;                 
          &lt;/span&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  ...
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>TRIED</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have tried testing with alternate properties with person as an expected type (<code>author</code> and <code>creator</code>). Same result.</p>
  
  <p>I have also tried wrapping person itemscope around the properties, and using <code>itemref</code> and <code>ID</code> to target the values. This works, but has the downside of adding those values to properties in common with the article. So, for example, the article gets the additional <code>name</code> value of <code>Joe Blogs-a-Lot</code> - which isn't correct.</p>
  
  <p><strong>INVESTIGATIONS</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have had a bit of a look-see but couldn't quite find a specific answer - which surprised me.</p>
  
  <p>I did notice that there were reports of issues with the testing tool. For example, I note <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/28341994/4806086">this answer from the AWESOME CONTRIBUTOR in this area</a>, the mighty <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1591669/unor">@unor</a>. If you see this, Unor, thanks for all the help you have provided to so many people here about this stuff. You rock.</p>
  
  <p><strong>THE ACTUAL QUESTION</strong></p>
  
  <p>Am I doing something dumb (a distinct possibility from past experience), or is this an issue with the tester?</p>