Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27943192-20160309114438

Paperblossom's recent edit felt like a good time to bring this up.

I don't feel that including real names is appropriate on the wikia. Whilst it is known that many utaite do have facebook, they use their alias for a reason - even the official site for Root Five (for example) does not publish their real names, yet their names appear on this wikia. I think that they should be removed, along with any other 'real names' that appear on this wikia without permission.

People who really want to know can find them out, but it seems like a stalker level invasion of privacy. We should be respecting privacy, just like we shouldn't be reprinting videos without permission or sharing face pictures when they've asked us not to. It's OK to publish facts that are generally mentioned on their blogs and things, of course, but most keep their real names private or less easily found and we should be respecting that. 