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I believe it is not a coincident. I mentioned it at Articles for deletion/Daisy Tanwani. See contribution of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Maria%26Kaellstroem! suspect], sock 1, and sock 2. It is pretty straightforward. At May 8, 2019, suspect created Shilpa Sharma at 07:02 UTC, as their first edit. Within two hours, sock 1 and 2 also made their first edits on the same article. This is sufficient evidence of sock puppetry. THE NEW  Immortal  Wizard  (chat) 19:44, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  01:39, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No, it isn't a coincidence. See this edit by that identifies this as "edit-a-thon at UNESCO" which I believe was also being called "Wiki4Women Edit-a-thon" based on the March 8 entries in this log. I think  may have been the event planner. There are a number of these where different people are co-editing each others articles. Other examples are this and this. If an event roster exists on wiki then their edits could be looked at more closely and cleaned up.
 * Thanks for the ping. Yes, there edits were from an edit-a-thon. I agree that these articles need to be cleaned up, and nominated for deletion if necessary (some may not pass notability). The list of participants of this edit-a-thon can be seen here. Also please have a look at this discussion on the talk of WikiProject Women in Red. Also just for clarfication, was not the event planner, she providing remote support by cleaning up some of these articles. KCVelaga (talk) 05:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I see this thread is closed. I have checked my mentions only now. Confirming that I was not involved in planning or organising the event referred to in this thread. -- Rohini (talk) 21:24, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * FYI, KCVelaga (talk) 05:11, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you KCVelaga. I'm going to go ahead and close this.

Hi and  Thanks for sharing this with me. Since I was the facilitator of the event, I know some instances where two or more editors were found working on the same article. The reason was two different halls where participants were sitting and manual allotment of articles. I met Maria Kallstrom during the event and she was the representative from UN. The account isn't a sock puppet. -Manavpreet Kaur (talk) 15:04, 26 March 2019 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:59, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe you and no actions will result from this report. It currently serves to inform others that there is a perfectly logical reason for what otherwise appeared to be socking and suggests that some article cleanup work remains. Speaking of informing others, courtesy FYI to, the nominator at the AfD.


 * and, apologies for the wrong report. Is there any way I can detect this kind of cases (that are not sock puppetry) in the future? THE NEW  Immortal  Wizard  (chat) 19:56, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sometimes this happens, because there isn't central place on any Wikimedia project to check all events happening. People use different platforms and pages, so it is obviously to possible to keep a track on everything. But you can do some checks, for instance, the edit summaries (like I did) or account creation log for these new accounts (sometimes event organisers create them, and you'll find the reason). KCVelaga (talk) 00:13, 27 March 2019 (UTC)