Talk:Only a Downstat

I encountered the following line in the article:


 * The song's title is a Scientology reference, a 'downstat' being a person whose productivity has decreased, or a decrease in productivity itself (though the term is generally used by Scientology's critics and does not appear in the official Scientology website).

Googling on "site:scientology.org downstat" shows that the word does indeed appear on the official Scientology website itself. I have therefore removed the incorrect text. -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:31, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks Antaeus. The word didn't show up when I updated this article and used the search engine on the scientology site itself (it still doesn't) but when I google as you did it does - just shows...  Cheers, Ian Rose 10:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * While the word "downstat" might be Scientology-related, I can almost positively say that the song has nothing to do with Scientology. The world depicted in the album Replicas, to which this song belongs, is a dystopian future scenario of no religion or supernaturalism. Any Scientology connections are, I'm pretty convinced, completely coincidental. Adding it as fact to an article borders on stupidity. TorbenFrost 13:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this song is notable enough to form the basis for an original article. It is an extremely obscure bonus track of no consequence. This article reads like one a short essay on the song's lyrical theme. The Scientology connection is spurious; even if the author could source this article (perhaps with an interview, or a passage from a published book) it would not amount to more than a paragraph at the end of the article on Replicas, the parent album. Ashley Pomeroy 22:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I tagged the article as non-notable. I also removed the Project Scientology box from this page. Steve Dufour 17:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)