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Disable displaytitle modification in Visual Editor
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Description

The idea of the Visual Editor is to provide visual feedback to editors about the changes they're making. However, for displaytitle modifications (via ≡ → Advanced settings → Display title) there is no feedback at all in VE. The page title is a visual element, yet the VE always shows the original title, there is no error message about disallowed modifications, and on top of that it reports "no changes" when reviewing changes visually.

So clearly this functionality is not ready and should be disabled until at least it does something "visual".

Event Timeline

E.g. on English Wikipedia I've been following the tracking category "Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications" for a few weeks. It happens several times every day that a VE user wanting to change an article title wrongly uses displaytitle (and often also defaultsort).

Please, allow communities to do something about this, either by disabling this field, by allowing it to be disabled via JS or CSS, or by not allowing disallowed displaytitle modifications.