Why is review queue showing a number when it is empty?

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Very conceivably not the right area to be asking, but since it pertains to what I saw here on this site...

The review menu notification (see below) shows there are 12 items for review.

Non-empty review queue!

When I click on the link to the review queue, I arrive to find there is nothing for (me to) review (see below). Why is this?

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:31:55Z

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The review menu notification number is an estimate, based on cached details; it is not a real-time, up-to-date count.

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answered Sep 25, 2014 at 17:02

Hellion

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Also, it's based on the tasks available to everyone, not to any individual. The old suggested edit indicator showed an action you could take. This one doesn't indicate any such thing; it'll be stuck above 10 for everyone the entire time the self-eval is going, since it's impossible to clear that queue.
– user230
Sep 25, 2014 at 19:55

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