Thanks for doing this. I totally get people's concerns about real names, but being able to pull/anonymize things seems a reasonable solution. I had things pulled from the old fan fiction site in the mid 2000s for reasons already expressed by others (I think I googled myself and realized the issue). That, as far as I know, was respected. (I'm only sorry I didn't keep a copy for myself... maybe not that sorry as I was pretty young so it was probably cringey.)
I stumbled through the wiki onto some still-working links to war archives, which I didn't even know existed, and my name does appear in those though googling doesn't get hits, at least not first page. (Not sure how these things get indexed.) At any rate, it was personally really joyful for me to stumble across that stuff because I had forgotten all about it. So I appreciate trying to preserve the fandom's history and also be responsive to any individualized concerns on specific content.
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