This page is intended as a quick guide for admins who want to begin patrolling SPI. Further guidance is available at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SPI/Administrators_instructions.
SPI has a reputation as a complex and insular area of the project, but with the right tools, it's not actually that scary. Before you start contributing, please install User:GeneralNotability/spihelper as it will make things a lot easier.[note 1]
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