A fact from David S. Breslow appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 December 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
... that plastics researcher David S. Breslow's interest in chemistry began as a child when he used a chemistry set to make stink bombs? Source: The Morning News. "Breslow, 66, said his interest in chemistry began in New York when he was a boy, after he and a friend inherited a chemistry set. One day they ran out of ferrous sulfide and couldn't make more stink bombs."
Article was nominated within 7 days of being created. Well sourced with inline citations throughout. Article is neutral with no copyright violations according to Earwig. The hook is concise, neutral, and very interesting, with it appearing in the article with a source as well. QPQ has been done. This one's good to go. Aria1561 (talk) 06:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote this article back in 2020. Breslow was a member of my extended family, although I never met him and knew quite little about him before I began researching for the article. Given that, plus the fact that there was nothing at all controversial about his biography, I judged at the time that my connection wasn't strong enough to require a COI disclosure. Looking back on it now, having acquired additional experience, I think that was the wrong choice — even though I trusted myself to write objectively about him, others might not have, and I should have disclosed rather than making the call myself. To make amends now as best as possible, I'm adding {{Connected contributor}} here and I'll drop a note at WT:Chemistry inviting a review. (I'm not adding {{COI}} because, per that template's documentation, the article should have a specific, articulatable, fixable problem. Do not apply this tag simply because...there is or was a COI editor, and I do not believe that such a problem exists here.) {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:31, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
