Ghost "Maverick" Identifications (Minor Bug, Probably Indexing Issue)

Platform: Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue: N/A

Browser, if a website issue: Chrome (but presumably any)

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=comradejon&category=maverick

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem: This page lists just 3 maverick identifications, but the blue pie chart on the right says there are 6 maverick identifications. (Presumably the numbers should match).

Step 1: Go to the URL.

Step 2: See that the number of listed maverick identifications doesn’t match the number of maverick identifications listed on the pie chart.

Step 3: I used a modification of one of @pisum’s tools to find the other three:

Turns out, the missing three (Lines 1, 2 & 4 in the graphic immediately above) shouldn’t actually be mavericks - if you pull up the actual observations, my identifications don’t disagree with any prior identifications. I believe this is an indexing problem - for the three “missing” so-called maverick identifications, I am almost certain I initially provided an incorrect (maverick) identification, and then immediately (within a few seconds) deleted the incorrect maverick identification and substituted a correct identification.

I’ll probably let this sit for a while, and then eventually delete these “ghost” so-called maverick identifications and submit brand new identifications. That’ll probably making the issue go away.

But I figured I’d document this in case developers wanted to take a look, or in case somebody else encounters a similar issue and is trying to figure out what is going on. Thanks!

seems related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/orphaned-identification-record-returned-from-api/30372

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