If you use the Citoid API to look up metadata for Washington Post articles, it tends to return mangled results for authors.
For example https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/06/11/pentagons-top-general-apologizes-appearing-alongside-trump-lafayette-square/ returns:
[
{
"key": "T3JXGTQX",
"version": 0,
"itemType": "webpage",
"tags": [],
"title": "Pentagon’s top general apologizes for appearing alongside Trump in Lafayette Square",
"websiteTitle": "Washington Post",
"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/06/11/pentagons-top-general-apologizes-appearing-alongside-trump-lafayette-square/",
"language": "en",
"accessDate": "2020-06-11",
"author": [
[
"Dan Lamothe closeDan LamotheReporter covering the",
"Pentagon"
],
[
"the U. S.",
"militaryEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow"
]
],
"source": [
"Zotero"
]
}
]The URL https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/06/07/dc-black-lives-matter-defund-police/ returns even weirder results and breaks the look-up feature in VisualEditor (giving the error "We couldn't make a citation for you. You can create one manually using the 'Manual' tab above.")
Not sure if the problem is on our end or Zotero's.