Where I come from, we say that public figures have a limited right of privacy.

Are those first ten contributors really public figures?

Don't get me wrong I'm not accusing you of breaching privacy yet but I'm feeling unease if a forum starts to discuss RL infos of others and am wondering in which direction this investigation will continue to after you started gathering infos from different sites... :)

What about the ten highest ranking monks? Are they public figures?

E.g for years now I know about some monks which were (non simultanously) re-incarnations of the same person.

While occasionally having issues with these personas I never tried publicly to link them together, b/c it was their/his decission to not reveal informations.