Most of the places where I've seen documents that might raise questions, the person in question was long since dead, as aside.
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The other was someone who was alive, had done something that was nationally noteworthy as a child, but was largely unknown today.
In the latter case, the person was alive (and somewhat notable today), but did not want to be easily identified as the child in question.
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So, while I still talked about the child in my dissertation, and cited the research (it was notable),
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I didn't go out of my way to identify the child, much less link them up with their adult identity.
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A researcher could track down the source and do some Googling and figure it out (as I did). But I didn't make it any easier.
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Which puts some limits on my feelings about it. In this case, happy to not identify, felt that was an appropriate request.
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On the other hand, I still wrote about the "event" in question (and cited it). Important enough for understanding to warrant that, IMO.
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But I really mean "IMO"—I didn't ask anyone else, or a review board, or whatever. Idiosyncratic & subjective, to be sure. A judgment call.
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