User talk:David Ransford Ingham

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 * What I need help with is recovering my old account User:David R. Ingham. I had an email set that is no longer reachable and then forgot the pass wore.  I have made many contributions so being disconnected from my identity is a real problem.  David R. Ingham 19:44, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Experiential edits
Hey mate, You seem to be making quite a few edits with summaries like "I read this somewhere." While we're all not as well-read as you, we can't take your word for it. One of our principles is that everything must be verifiable and we do that by citing reliable sources. With a PhD and all that, you are probably far better equipped to do that type of editing, but what you're doing is called adding original research or your personal experiences and/or opinions, which just won't cut it. Please cite your edits and if you remove a maintenance tag without addressing the problem by editing the article and fixing the situation, you should at least discuss it on the talk page first. Toddst1 (talk) 04:23, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

My last such change was to remove a "dubious" tag. If it had been a "citation needed" tag, I would have left it, but "dubious" is clearly an error on a statement that is well known. David R. Ingham 20:12, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Problem with your custom signature
You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.

The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.

The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.


 * Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:
 * Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
 * Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
 * Remove anything in the text box.  (It might already be empty.)
 * Click the blue "" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)
 * Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:
 * Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
 * Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
 * Click the blue "" button at the bottom of the page.

More information about custom signatures is available at Signatures. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. Thank you. 18:02, 7 September 2020 (UTC)