Question: Have authors made comments about the Sphinx's characteristics?
About the article "Great Sphinx of Giza", section "Racial characteristics".

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Only the titles and assorted fragments of Aeschylus's other plays have come down to us.
We have enough fragments of some plays (along with comments made by later authors and scholiasts) to produce rough synopses of their plots. 
An author's collaboration with an authors' editor begins after a manuscript has been drafted.
The manuscript must be drafted in the desired publishing language: author editing does not include translation.
The manuscript must be relatively complete, as author editing does not include the tasks of drafting or writing.
If authors need help conceiving, structuring or writing their text, then they require the work of a developmental editor or a writer (e.g.
medical writer or technical writer).
The goal of author editing is to help authors produce a clear, accurate and effective document that meets readers' expectations and that will be favorably received by publishers, journal editors and peer reviewers.
Therefore, authors' editors do both linguistic editing and substantive editing (editing of "substance", i.e.
content).
They improve format, structure, grammar, style, data presentation, argumentation, flow and accuracy.
They query authors about unclear content, inform and educate authors about good writing techniques (called "didactic editing"), and engage authors in revising the text (they "elicit revision").
Rather than simply correct the text, they collaborate with authors by dialoging with them (through in-text comments, email, phone, internet telephony, etc.)
about the content and style; examples of how they annotate texts and negotiate the acceptability of the language have been given in an essay by Burrough-Boenisch.
Authors' editors may also advise authors on peer review and the publishing process, and on high-impact publishing strategies.
When authors receive the revised manuscript, they usually must dedicate substantial time and effort to reviewing the editor's changes and queries.
They may discuss the work with the editor, to learn why certain changes were made and to resolve issues that were raised during editing.
After they have revised the text, they may resubmit it to the editor for an additional round of editing (if the fee agreement so permits) or finalize it on their own. 
The parodies, written in the style of a screenplay, have a wide appeal, at once scathing and affectionate, with plenty of references to pop culture, Internet fan culture, movie trivia, and just about anything else.
Font sizes and punctuation are used inventively (perhaps most memorably in "The Matrix in Fifteen Minutes").
Jokes are made at the expense of plot holes, inconsistent character arcs, and bad dialogue amongst other things.
The world of Internet fanfiction is also made fun of, with Jones making straight-faced, ridiculous claims about the characters even wilder than those made by the fanfic authors themselves. 
Existing research.
Others-generated warrants.
Much of the existing research regarding warranting examined how perception and judgments about an individual are influenced by others-generated information.
Walther, Van Der Heide, Kim, Westerman, and Tong (2008), used fake Facebook profiles to assess if the attractiveness of friends, as well as what these friends said on an individual’s profile, had an effect on social attraction.
Profiles that were neutral in content displayed two comments from friends.
The small profile pictures of commenting friends were either attractive or unattractive, and the comments suggested either socially desirable or socially undesirable behaviors (Walther et al., 2008).
It was found that social attractiveness was positively correlated with the physical attractiveness of commenting friends (Walther et al., 2008).
This indicates that the simple observable presence of others in one’s social network may be enough to make social judgments.
Mixed results were found regarding actual content of friend’s comments (Walther et al., 2008).
A significant effect was found, although these effects depended on the gender of the profile owner.
This confirms the assertion in warranting theory that comments made by others do indeed warrant judgments, but adds that these judgments may be moderated by the initial claims made by the target.
This study admittedly left a gap that required further research.
While it confirmed that perceptions are influenced by others, the claims made by a user were very limited and purposefully neutral (Walther et al., 2008).
Therefore, the authors were unable to make assertions about the power of others-generated cues over self-generated claims.
A follow-up study addressed this issue.
Walther, Van Der Heide, Harnel, and Schulman, (2009) tested the effects of self-generated information against information generated by others.
Walther et al.
(2009) compared subjects reactions to fake Facebook profiles and their judgments of extroversion and introversion.
Profiles contained either self-generated information suggesting the profile owner was introverted or extroverted, and others-generated statements suggesting the owner was introverted or extroverted.
Information suggesting introversion was considered negative while information suggestion extroversion was considered to be positive.
Walther et al.
(2009) found that while others-generated statements do indeed have an effect on observer judgments, the effect did not override self-generated information or negativity effects.
Taking a further look at the effects of positive and negative statements with self versus others-generated information, Walther, Van Der Heide, Harnel, and Schulman (2009) replaced statements of introversion and extroversion with physical attractiveness.
Subjects judged physical attractiveness of subjects based on information in the owner's profile and comments made by the owner's friends; pictures of owners were either male or female and were pre-tested to be at a neutral level of attractiveness.
Walther et al.
(2009) found that when asked to make judgments of attractiveness, results were strongly in line with predictions made by warranting theory.
Walther et al.
(2009) explain the discrepancies in results between the two experiments by posing that perhaps more is going on when making judgments of internal versus external characteristics.
It is possible that friend's judgments about personality are deemed less accurate than ones made by the person his or herself.
This is likely due to the assumption that a person would know his or herself best, and may still perform activities associated with another temperament while still claiming to be the opposite; for example, a true introvert may still electto go out with friends on occasion (Walther et al., 2009). 
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