Talk:Only a Downstat

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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)

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)