diff --git a/extensions/freebase/src/com/google/refine/freebase/util/FreebaseUtils.java b/extensions/freebase/src/com/google/refine/freebase/util/FreebaseUtils.java
index 82f98ac66..a805e9210 100644
--- a/extensions/freebase/src/com/google/refine/freebase/util/FreebaseUtils.java
+++ b/extensions/freebase/src/com/google/refine/freebase/util/FreebaseUtils.java
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ public class FreebaseUtils {
 
     /**
      * This RPC call works for the Reconcile API, but MQLread is not supported over JSONRPC
+     * 
+     * NOTE: JSONRPC has been deprecated and replaced by HTTP Batch (which also
+     * doesn't support MQLread, so perhaps we should just remove this))
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("unused")
     static private JSONObject mqlreadRpc(String query) throws JSONException, UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException {