http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...minship/Willmcw

Old, but look who nominated and who voted.

On a slightly different note, I can't look at the guy's contributions. The option isn't there.

Is this a glitch in the wiki or something deeper?

Oh, isn't this account Will Beback's sock? I'm pretty sure that was established a long time ago.

He changed his name to Will Beback.

That happens fairly often when established users change their names... Will Beback's original WP username was too close to his real name, so he had it changed, and the original user page was "salted" by creating an ordinary page there, for what then became a non-existent user.

So his contributions from his old account have merged with the contributions of his new account or not?

You can tell I know next to nil about WP technology. As far as I'm concerned, Check User and the like is just some shaman like Dmcdevit at an altar throwing down bones and saying "De bones sey dat Runcorn an' Poetlister ar de same person! Now, I mus' go an' resurrect Hector Barbossa!" I do know that except in extraordinary circumstances can anyone's contributions be completely removed or erased from the WP database. So somewhere I should be able to see Will Beback's old account's contributions or this is in violation of the GDFL or something.

I think you want this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/User2004

user:Willmcw to user:User2004 to user:Will Beback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=53567896

Oops, I meant to post this too, sorry. Contributions by user, since you were having trouble finding them.

Willcmw: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bi...n.wikipedia.org
User2004: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bi...n.wikipedia.org
Will Beback: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bi...n.wikipedia.org

I wonder why the renaming from Willcmw to User2004 left a few straggling edits?

Will Beback and SlimVirgin are one of Wikipedia's celebrated tag-teams, comparable in substance, if not style, to SlimVirgin and Jayjg. Will Beback generally functions as a meat puppet for SV, running around after her and trying to come up with justifications on talk pages for her more egregious policy violations.