When you look up a usurped name, the count is completely wrong.  Looking up by 
id avoids that issue because when changing name, user id stays the same.  
rev_user_text does not update when a username changes.

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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> On Nov 9, 2014, at 19:44, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 09/11/14 20:02, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
>> It was indexed by both in the past. And it should be that way too.
>> Looking up by username is an unreliable way of counting edits.
>> 
>> Cyberpower678
>> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
>> Mailing List Moderator
> 
> It depends on what you consider "unreliable". I have seen complaints due to 
> Special:Contributions ignoring imported edits.
> 
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