Talk:Stephin Merritt

message: If anyone has biographical data on Merritt it would be great if they'd add it. AW
:There is a page at http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/stephinmerritt.html with a couple of interesting bits, but I'm a bit reluctant to write it up just now because for all I know it's completely made up (it's the only source I can find on the web). I think I've got a couple of articles about him in magazines somewhere, so I'll try to dig them out, and there's a couple of reference books I can check as well. Then my need to check facts should be fulfilled. Maybe I'm being too cautious - if so, feel free to add 
the stuff on that page here. --Camembert
The page has a confusing (in attribution) claim that S.M. may have been responsible for the theme of Deep Throat. I don't know anything about this, but movie came out when he was 6 years old. Perhaps someone can clarify or investigate?
What do other people think? --MrCheshire
:I don't care one way or the other. Is this better? --AllanBz 03:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I kinda think the bloggers who labeled him "racist" have as much credibility as some clown on the street. Isn't it equally racist to require someone to like hip-hop - or to imagine that hip-hop is somehow the official music of black people?--72.131.42.216 04:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I'm noyt touching the issue of whether his comments were racist or not, but it was a pretty newsworthy thing about him that got a lot of buzz.Ohjeeztower 17:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: Merritt is a notoriously difficult interview subject, although he continues to grant interviews. I'm sure someone has said so in writing in a citable source. Does anyone have a suggestion where we could find someone writing about that? - Jmabel | Talk 16:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: As interview subject

message: Merritt’s real first name may very well be “Stephen” but the source given was a self-described “fan-blog” that anyway didn’t even talk about his birth name.--Lairor (talk) 19:58, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Further, if, as the 'Personal' section of the article (which is sourced) states, 'Stephin' was a spelling/name adopted for 'sorting his junk mail', it shouldn't be listed as 'Birth Name' in the infobox, should it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.113.105 (talk) 12:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've blanked the birth name field in the infobox. The text of the article makes it evident that "Stephin" is a respelling that Merritt uses as his stage name, rather than being the name he was given at birth. Further, no source was cited for Merritt's middle name, and I can't readily find one, so I've removed it from the article. (AllMusic does give "Raymond," but it's apparently not entirely reliable for biographical info, and a better source would be nice for a BLP.) Yspaddadenpenkawr (talk) 17:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: “Stephen” Merritt

message: It seems rather pointless to include this (evidently outdated) piece of trivia when the article main image shows him wearing clothes that are clearly not brown...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.67.24 (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: "Only wears brown clothing"