I thought it was a study about birds and I was confused why they were trying to apply all these human traits in the article. I then came over here and downvoted two commentors for also confusingly talking about birds.
I much prefer the original title of the study: Diurnal Preference and Grey Matter Volume in a Large Population of Older Adults: Data from the UK Biobank
That's an interesting page. Perhaps off-topic, but I'm never sure where meta can be discussed so I guess a subthread of a subthread might be reasonably out of the way / collapsable.
Some of the changes are clearly good: "Article: Learning how to learn (with 20 study references)" was changed into "Learning how to learn" which is indeed what it's about (the article prefix is useless, the "with 20 references" sounds a bit like WikiHow's "with pictures!"). The "google relentlessly continues to attack on X" title was changed to just "google add experimental flag to do X" to make it more objective, also good.
But those are the minority: another titles was first edited to change "54" into "fifty four" (how's that useful?) and then edited again to omit the number altogether (how is that more helpful to the reader?). The "CDC denies tribes" title was changed to not mention the CDC at all, now the tribes are simply "thwarted" (hiding info, why? AFAICT nobody else was involved in the thwarting). The interview date "May 2020" was removed (helpful how?). "My daughter and I made a site to explore the ~3.5M photos from the ISS" was edited to remove the 3.5M number (just why?)...
Not even the author can edit a title iirc, this is all needless moderation at best or harmful at worst.
How many of those 'useless' edits were changing the title back to whatever the actual page title was? Keep in mind that sometimes site owners change or A/B test page titles.
There's a bit of 'Change it to feel like we're doing something' going on for sure; it's human nature. Go to any HOA, school board, or other minor political meeting to see it in action.
I much prefer the original title of the study: Diurnal Preference and Grey Matter Volume in a Large Population of Older Adults: Data from the UK Biobank