If I go to this badge page (or any other badge that can be used as a title) here on Meta, I see “You can use this badge as title” with a pencil even though I don’t have that badge.

Oh just realized that non-logged in viewers see the same thing.
If I go to this badge page (or any other badge that can be used as a title) here on Meta, I see “You can use this badge as title” with a pencil even though I don’t have that badge.

Oh just realized that non-logged in viewers see the same thing.
I don’t think this verbiage is meant to be specific to you the user, but rather to indicate that a badge can be used as a title versus ones that cannot.
Possibly but the edit button should not show in that case.
Fixed per
We now only show the selector if you can actually select the badge as a title, its still a tiny bit rough, but way less confusing.