When subscription request pops up in Spark when someone wants to add you to their roster, Spark shows their username and then prepopulates the Nickname field with their username as well. Nickname field can be edited before approving the request and adding this user to your contacts, but sometimes username can be undistinguishable (especially in closed environment, when username can be just numbers or some other code). So it could be useful for Spark to try to pull user's Name or Nickname first and only then fallback to username (or nothing actually, leaving it up to a user to name his new contact).