” The only time you can make a change is when it is one of the British news sites which is big on long titles you have to shorten the titles. But, you must post in the first posting the full title.”
Especially the Daily Mail.
But even then, you are supposed to just truncate the title, not change it out of hand.
That is wrong if you do make changes to the original title. When I post such long title articles from the Daily Mail, then I have to refer to it.