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Titles of articles in Willipedia are chosen to serve two crucial goals which are sometimes at odds.
#Titles [[Willipedia:Policies#Article_Titles_are_a_Promise_._._.|create expectations]], and therefore a title ought to accurately reflect the content that follows it.
#But, on Willipedia, titles are the names that articles are called by. If titles are not succictsuccinct, they will never be linked to, and will fall into obscurity.
'''For an example,''' consider the old article, "How To Procrastinate." This was the first title it had, and it did a good job of creating the expectation of a list of suggestions, which is indeed what the article was. But suppose that someone who doesn't know about this article is writing a related article; his prose is much more likely to contain (and so more likely to link to) the word "procrastination" or "procrastinating" than the full phrase "how to procrastinate." Thus the article is currently called [[procrastinating]].