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number of SPI cases

Is there anything that tracks the number of open SPI cases? I don't mean things like {{admin dashboard/header}} that just report the current figure - I'm curious about how many are handled/begun per day, etc. -- asilvering (talk) 17:45, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at the editing history for Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Cases. Mz7 bot reports the number of active cases in its edit summary. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:26, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Unfortunately it considers "closed" cases to be "active". -- asilvering (talk) 18:27, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have long been curious about this too. On one of these weekends, I’ve been thinking about modifying the Mz7 bot to keep track of some statistics about open cases and post them somewhere. I’d be happy to start by potentially making the edit summary more helpful. Mz7 (talk) 21:36, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Needing help with a sockpuppet investigation

Hi, whilst editing football articles I discovered two users who I believe are the same based on their edits. Bembety and Sman099 have both done very similiar edits, adding competition records to footballers - Bembety here: [[1]] and Sman099 here: [[2]] - I would nominate this myself but this is my first time nominating someone as a sockpuppet, so I'm not entirely sure of the procedure. (OK wait I think I've done it) RossEvans19 (talk) 16:11, 28 July 2025 (UTC) Nominated![reply]

Case merge 29/07

Please could someone merge Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CFCFOUREVA/Archive into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AttackTheMoonNow/Archive? When I filed the case on CFCFOUREVA, I didn't see the summary in CFCFOUREVA's block log that says that user was a confirmed sock of ATMN. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:22, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A globally blocked user and another non-blocked user with similar names and editing

Hey, I'm not familiar too much with this process and don't have the mental capacity to read through how the entire process. I noticed that User:CBeebies1289 is globally blocked and created Draft:Every Flag of the World which User:CBeebies1290 edited after the former was blocked. No idea if they are the same, but I won't be surprised if they are. Gonnym (talk) 11:10, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Both accounts are globally locked. I've G5'ed the CBeebies1290 creations created after the CBeebies1289 lock.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:38, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Gonnym (talk) 20:33, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]