I specialise in investigating edits from the UseModWiki era of Wikipedia, so I can help here. Yes, it's true that Nostalgia Wikipedia often contains earlier edits than the ones available in the main English Wikipedia database. For example, it contains the very first edit to Dragon Ball Z from 9 September 2001. A great way to find extremely old history is to use the what links here feature in the Nostalgia Wikipedia and check for CamelCase redirects. I did this for the Anime article, and found a version under the title "JapaneseAnime" from April 2001 that is still available in the English Wikipedia database. That's the earliest animanga page I can find.
Re: the history of User:LC, all user pages were stored in the main namespace before January 2002, and then cut-and-pasted to the user namespace. Unfortunately, LC's userpage was deleted on 28 February 2002 by Larry Sanger, according to the old deletion log. You can find versions of LC's userpage from 2001 at the title "LC" in the Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham 87 10:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I specialise in investigating edits from the UseModWiki era of Wikipedia, so I can help here. Yes, it's true that Nostalgia Wikipedia often contains earlier edits than the ones available in the main English Wikipedia database. For example, it contains the very first edit to Dragon Ball Z from 9 September 2001. A great way to find extremely old history is to use the what links here feature in the Nostalgia Wikipedia and check for CamelCase redirects. I did this for the Anime article, and found a version under the title "JapaneseAnime" from April 2001 that is still available in the English Wikipedia database. That's the earliest animanga page I can find.
Re: the history of User:LC, all user pages were stored in the main namespace before January 2002, and then cut-and-pasted to the user namespace. Unfortunately, LC's userpage was deleted on 28 February 2002 by Larry Sanger, according to the old deletion log. You can find versions of LC's userpage from 2001 at the title "LC" in the Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham 87 10:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)