A current FAQ on https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647 seems ambiguous on whether titles that begin with "How do I `<do something>` ... ?" or "How to `<do something>` ... ?" are desirable on Stack Exchange sites generally, or whether a shorter title like "Doing `<something>` ... ?" is to be preferred. By ambiguous I mean things like the most upvoted answer saying: > **4. Don't start with "How do I..."** > > Writing in that style ensures that your title will fail criteria 1-3, > and get less attention than it deserves. > > This is a question site, and people will understand your titles are > questions. while the FAQ title starts with: > **"How do I..."** Without going into all other possible title structures, and individual sites may already have clarified this in their own Metas, is there generally a case for preferring one of the above over the others while performing more comprehensive editing of a question? A similar question (https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148261/preferred-title-format-gerund-or-how-to) was asked 5-6 years ago from what I suspect was a pure Stack Overflow perspective. It was made a duplicate of https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647 an hour and a bit later which, in retrospect, seems to have been hasty because unambiguous advice on this particular aspect is not offered in that FAQ.