Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Doerrman/Archive

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 * Snirkel, an account created circa 2011, thought to drop by my talk page, Bonadea's talk page and DPL bot's talk page to drop odd comments like [walks into Bonadea's bedroom] S-s-s-s-s-s-s... [pokes Bonadea with trunk, Bonadea jumps out of bed] My name is Horatio, and I am an elephant.
 * I don't have any intersections with this user. I notice that Bonadea previously commented on DPL bot's talk page, and I left a comment a few days ago on Bonadea's talk page. So that might have been the chain of thought. He went to DPL, commented, saw Bonadea was the last commenter, went to their talk page, commented, saw that I was the last commenter...etc.
 * I see similar comments by another user Snuffleupagus doing similar stuff here and here. "I will scare you out of bed at night." The Snuffleupagaus account was originally created in 2004 as Snuffleupagus~enwiki, but didn't edit at all since their account name change until two days ago.
 * Snirkel's user page: "My name is Horatio, and I am an elephant. People think I'm a Snuffleupagus, but I am an elephant. I'm not a Snuffleupagus."
 * Both users have intersections at Pennsylvania articles, Wilson School District and Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority. Things start to get odd at these articles.
 * There is another animal-based editor Autumn the cat, ("I'm Autumn the cat. My fur is the colors of fall, and I'm a female cat.") at Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority. This user has numerous edits to the articles above, along with ample edits to the Wikipedia sandbox. Contrib history
 * Snirkel has numerous edits to both articles and a lot of sandbox editing including at the Wikipedia sandbox. Contrib history
 * Amelia Earhart the brown chicken ("I'm Amelia Earhart the brown chicken. I've been bullied by John the rooster. He's a light tan rooster with dark green at the rump and feathers, and he's bigger than I am.") Edits to both articles as well as the Wikipedia sandbox. Contrib history
 * Going back a few more years to 2011 are a series of socks attributed to who had (among other suspected names)  Vampire Snuffleupagus once wrote "What's up, John? I'm Mr. Snuffleupagus. You know Cedric Lessig? I know you're a BARTA bus driver, and Cedric cleans the BARTA bus station. I used to go to his house at night and scare him out of bed. I'll do something even worse to you. I'll get an army of Snuffleupaguses to wake you up and kill you!" Also "I'm gonna scare you out of bed at night!"
 * "I'm Robby Robertsun from Forbidden Planet and The Invisible Boy."
 * "I'm James Gilbert, a bus driver at BARTA. You can call me Jim. That's what my friends call me. I also ride a Harley-Davidson."
 * Mark Lessig is a suspected sock account dating back to 2009. There was a Pennsylvania IP that blanked his talk page a few times.
 * IP 76.124.20.123 (Pennsylvania; ISP: Comcast) left this comment "Don't revert my edits made to the sandbox. The sandbox is a place for testing edits. If you revert any of my edits to the sandbox, I will go to your house and midnight and scare you out of bed." He later signed it "Aloysius Snuffleupagus". This was in 2008. So homeboy has been at this crap for 8 years, including at other off-site Wikis.
 * "I'm John Doerrman, a bus driver from BARTA. I'm also on the Homestar Runner Wiki."
 * "I'm the Vampire Snuffleupagus from The Twilight Saga: New Moon. No, I'm not the Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street that you all know. I'm the evil snuffleupagus, and I'm a vampire!" Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:22, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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The four listed puppets are ✅ to each other and blocked without tags. The master, and as far as I know, all of his socks, are. I'll leave the tagging up to a clerk once they've established a likely behavioral connection to the master and other accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It's true that I did not tag the accounts when I blocked them, but I didn't realize that had tagged them. I've added a second tag to each of the four accounts. Nothing more to do here. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:31, 29 August 2016 (UTC)