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HTML pages (written properly) don't need metadata for that. It's part of the document.

Metadata is good for things like thumbnails, authorship, or summaries, none of which are necessarily distinguishable in valid HTML.




You're conflating metadata with the HTML meta tag. Please consider that everything is metadata except the bare text.

The point of the message above us was that the content on this site is not formatted properly as HTML.


Tags aren't just meta. For example, a sentence has a different meaning when it's alone vs. part of a list vs. a caption of an image. All of those things have their own tags.


We are saying the same thing.




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