Author Archives title - WPML Compatibility

If WPML String Translation is used to have multilingual author names, this change is needed to persist the translation to the title of the Author Archives page.
Remove footer copyright element
Merge pull request #1050 from iloveitaly/remote-footer-copyright

Remove footer copyright element
Reducing duplication and better utilizing the WP built-in `locate_template()`

Re recommendations from @QWp6t in roots/roots#1042
Merge pull request #1042 from al-the-x/better-partial-includes

Trigger an error when a required include fails to be included...
Fix is_element_empty util function.
Merge pull request #1058 from BastianHofmann/patch-1

Fix is_element_empty util function.
Merge pull request #999 from ansonkao/patch-1

Author Archives title - WPML Compatibility
Fix is_element_empty
Move comments.php conditionals inside <section> tags to ensure section#comments and section#respond are always present to avoid breaking comments_link() function

Line 54 __( --> _e(
Merge pull request #1027 from CFXd/comments_link-fix-in-comments-template

Move comments.php conditionals inside <section> tags to ensure comments_link() does not break (and clean up spacing)
Use `get_comment_date` instead of `comment_date`

Because `comment_date` already displays / echo's it value.  
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_date  
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comment_date
Merge pull request #1065 from jmslbam/patch-1

Use `get_comment_date` instead of `comment_date`