Metadata that no longer matches the page
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Rule · bucket: judgment · severity: error · detector: none · since: v0.14.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Search and sharing

Forbidden:
  A title or description still carrying positioning the page dropped, changed in a later commit "when there is time"

Instead:
  Change the metadata **in the same change as the copy**. A page's title, description and preview text are copy, written by whoever wrote the headline, reviewed the same way.

This is the whole reason the section exists. A copy pass reads pages; nobody reads `<head>`. One site rewrote every visible page and served the old positioning to search for a day — including a metaphor whose explanation had been deleted the day before, so the stranger who met it had nowhere left to resolve it. The comment above that line already said "metadata is copy, when the positioning moves this moves with it". It had caught the problem once before and did not catch it again, because a comment is not a check.