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Sometimes you have to abbreviate to keep a title under the character count. Sometimes what is in the page's <title/> tag is not the same as the readable title
by pg_1234 4y ago
Sometimes you have to abbreviate to keep a title under the character count.
Sometimes what is in the page's <title/> tag is not the same as the readable title on the article ... and as many news aggregators link with the content's of the <title/> tag, which is what caught your attention, it is not unreasonable to use that.
And something I've observed recently is titles on news articles being updated after they are published ... political pressure on editors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... it usually manifests as a "watering down" of the original title.
This doesn't justify wild re-writes ... but "original title" is not as clear cut as one might wish.
- dang 4y ago> Sometimes you have to abbreviate to keep a title under the character count. Correct! > Sometimes what is in the page's <title/> tag is not the same as the readable title on the article ... and [...] it is not unreasonable to use that. Also quite correct! > And something I've observed recently is titles on news articles being updated after they are published Also entirely correct. (I don't know if it's pressure - sometimes they're just correcting things - but we don't really need to know why.) > This doesn't justify wild re-writes ... but "original title" is not as clear cut as one might wish. Absolutely right!