NPC Spawn Issue: Bigilam Wantilans in Steamfont - not classic

[Zallarenya]

This vendor at the entrance to Ak'anon wasn't there during classic. I recall him being added with the newbie armor quests in Sony's Great Newbie Help Movement as a more visible merchant -- easier to find water, food, and bandages than searching the little buildings. Other changes in the movement were armor quests, no CR, no xp loss for newbies.

This one is difficult to prove, especially since he was involved in the later rogue epic quest and all google-fu points to that. I'm hoping some other Gnomes can remember, and back me up on this one.

This is the best I could find: The Great Newbie Help Movement began in May/June 2003. This archive of EQtraders from early June doesn't list Bigilam as a merchant (water, milk, bottle). Later version do list him, but this isn't absolute proof -- this was right about the time EQTraders converted to database, and the database was much more complete. I'm actually one of the original data submitters for that database, but I apparently didn't keep my old logs and/or sql dumps to verify collection times.

Anyone know of another way I could verify this one?