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Do I really need to download this massive PDF to find out what the useless title of this submission means? Mods, please edit.

• eli 12y ago
  I believe HN guidelines are to use the title from the source document. In this case, "Hemisphere Synopsis." Don't think that's much better.
  • dang 12y ago
    When the document has more than one title, it makes sense to use the most informative one. The submitted title was "DO Not mention Hemisphere in any official reports or court documents". That broke the guidelines, certainly by being baity and arguably by editorializing as well.
    • gus_massa 12y ago
      The original title was a quote from page 13. A very interesting quote, but with very little context information.
      • dang 12y ago
        I know, but picking an arbitrary sentence to emphasize one tendentious point is a form of spin, and thus arguably editorializing. In the absence of any good title, subtitle, or caption, it's ok to pick the sentence from the article that best and most neutrally represents it as a whole. But that is not the same thing.