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The only reason I can think of to keep $node->title in the {node} table is for alphabetical ordering of nodes, which is relatively unusual, and direct query listings of node titles in blocks/views - which is less necessary now that we have node_load_multiple(). So, we should look at converting title to a field. This would help with Field UI consistency, field translation and a lot of other big patches which otherwise have to special-case node titles.
I won't have time to work on this in the next two weeks, just opening the issue.
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Comment #1
kika CreditAttribution: kika commentedFor background: http://drupal.org/node/372743#comment-1350144 from Barry:
Comment #2
yched CreditAttribution: yched commented#557292: TF #3: Convert node title to fields has the beginnings of a patch.