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role^player 22:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. role^player 20:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

IF IT WAS TRUE (IT IS), THEN IT'S CONSTRUCTIVE. ALIMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON.

Unless you are able to prove that Coleridge had constipation and used enemas using significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject then it's vandalism, pure and simple. -- role^player 20:39, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

THIS IS MENTIONED IN VOL. 2 ON RICHARD HUGHES' DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF COLERIDGE, "DARKER REFLECTIONS," on PP. 12-14. THERE IS NO GREATER AUTHORITATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE ON COLERIDGE THAN RICHARD HUGHES.James Hercules Sutton 20:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes mentions no such thing. It helps if you get the author's name right. Stop being a dick. -- role^player 20:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Should have said Holmes (you got me excited). From page 14, "The Surgeon came, went back for Pipe & Syringe & returned & with extreme difficulty & the exertion of his utmost strength injected the latter. Good God!--What a sensation when the obstruction suddenly shot up!" Holmes quotes Coleridge himself, from his Notebooks, 2805. He goes on to say "The humiliation of this experience never left Coleridge." You may not like scatological reference, but this one is pertinent, important and true. --James Hercules Sutton 21:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

By golly it does. When you reinsert the reference into the article please make sure you reference the book as :

Holmes, Richard (2011). Coleridge: Darker Reflections. London: HarperCollins. p. 14. ISBN 9780007378821.

Apologies for calling you a dick. -- role^player 21:58, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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