URL / Meta info for Author bio pages

[ChristopherGlaeser]

When you create a biography page for authors that point back to their G+ account, do you include any other signals in the URL other than the authors name?  For example, would you use www.domain.com/sam-spade or www.domain.com/sam-spade-biography, etc?  Similar question for the meta description.  Do you add any signals there?  Or, is rel=author strong enough.

Best,
Christopher

[Jonathan1979]

I have always just used rel=author, but then again I have not tried to "rank" the author bio page.  If I was, then I might well add the persons name in the URL, as it is certainly a ranking factor that is taken into account.

[ChristopherGlaeser]

Just a quick follow up, I isolated the problem.  WordPress was stripping the rel=author that I had included in the link.  I have since upgraded to WP 3.6.1 and I don't know if it was that or something else, but WP is no longer stripping the rel=author.