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This article doesn't deserve the rating it's received. The content is good but the grammar and language use need going over.

The article needs a copyedit tag. Surely this will upset all the Mercury fans but the best way to get through a crisis like that is to fix the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.251.103.76 (talk) 04:18, 23 March 2012‎

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New entry under Other Portrayals

Recently, on Netflix's animated series Big Mouth, singer Brendan McKian imitated Mercury's voice for the original song "I'm Gay" (third episode, "Am I Gay?"). Please add to the Other Portrayals section. 72.197.9.171 (talk) 19:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please consider including this just-posted photo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decaying_Photo_of_Freddie_Mercury_outside_Mercury_House_-_Stone_Town_-_Zanzibar_-_Tanzania_(8830680686).jpg, perhaps immediately below the existing photo of Mercury House. - Adam Jones Adam63 (talk) 01:11, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Not done Apologies. The idea with images is that they should go towards something definitive. In the case of people, we want clear, high-quality pictures so we know what they look like. I can tell this is Freddie Mercury because I know what he looked like; would this give a reader who's never seen him as much information about his appearance as a clear photo? CityOfSilver 19:43, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please consider including this just-posted photo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decaying_Photo_of_Freddie_Mercury_outside_Mercury_House_-_Stone_Town_-_Zanzibar_-_Tanzania_(8830680686).jpg, perhaps immediately below the existing photo of Mercury House. - Adam Jones [[User:Adam63|Adam63]] ([[User talk:Adam63|talk]]) 01:11, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 :{{replyto|Adam63}} {{not done}} Apologies. The idea with images is that they should go towards something definitive. In the case of people, we want clear, high-quality pictures so we know what they look like. I can tell this is Freddie Mercury because I know what he looked like; would this give a reader who's never seen him as much information about his appearance as a clear photo? '''''[[User talk:CityOfSilver|<font color="#EDDA74" face="Bradley Hand ITC">City</font>]]<font color="Green" face="Bradley Hand ITC">O</font><font color="Red" face="Bradley Hand ITC">f</font>[[Special:Contribs/CityOfSilver|<font color="#708090" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Silver</font>]]''''' 19:43, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
-== Knowingly infecting others with HIV  ==
-It has been well documented that when knowingly living with aids he regularly took part in unprotected sex with many men and knowingly intentionally infecting them. As a result many people later developed HIV some directly from him and others from persons linked to him due to his intentional spreading of the disease.
-That is one of freddys legacies, that he intentionally spead hiv and is responsible for the illness and deaths of countless people.
-All this has been documented in the media but there has always been a tight lipped and suppression of this information from those close to freddy who are biased and dont want feddys image damaged.
-The fact is though freddy did what i claimed, its well documented and it should be in the Wikipedia page about him. [[User:HardeeHar|HardeeHar]] ([[User talk:HardeeHar|talk]]) 09:43, 31 December 2017 (UTC)