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TannerGoethals3 was blocked for violations of WP:NOR in music articles. He evaded his block with User:Tanner Goethals and then with User:TannerGoethalsWiki. A noticeboard report was made at Block evasion by TannerGoethals3 – rangeblock?, which showed Utah IPs being used by TannerGoethals3. Later,, and  were blocked as socks. A bunch of Utah IPs have been used for block evasion, with many of them blocked including three rangeblocks on 2601:680:C500:9C92:0:0:0:0/64 and a two-year rangeblock on Special:Contributions/2601:680:c800:3fc4::/64. So, getting to the point, FrizzlyXerox has been making the same edits in the same style as previous IPs and socks. For instance, TannerGoethals3 added the "Hawaiian music" genre to a song article and was reverted, then an IP from Utah restored it and wrote in the edit summary, "I think River of Love is a Hawaiian music too", followed FrizzlyXerox adding more genres and writing in the edit summary, "I think River of love sounds like Surf music, but Country-Surf." In another case, TowerPizza changed a genre to "jazz rock", followed by a Utah IP edit warring to add the hard rock genre, followed by FrizzlyXerox adding a note saying "Please talk at the talk page to put hard rock," followed by the same Utah IP writing a hidden note saying, "If you want to add hard rock, please write on talk page on this article." Checkuser requested to make certain. Binksternet (talk) 07:55, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * FrizzlyXerox is ✅ to the master.

✅ to each other but ❌ to TannerGoethals3

to to the Brandnewflipflops group

FrizzlyXerox is. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:30, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Possible sock has no edits, thus nothing to compare. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:36, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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User has admitted to being a sockpuppet on my talk page here. Appears to have had 3 previous accounts that have all been blocked.  Rob van  vee  05:34, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 07:04, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TannerGoethals3/Archive  Rob van  vee  17:02, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

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No reason given for requesting a CU; nor can I see any. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:11, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

I've blocked anyway per the duck test. Graham 87 04:36, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:28, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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Super obvious case, no need for CU. Same style in username, same conjecture expressed in comments about musical genre. Compare the following:
 * TGoethalsYT – "All the Pretty Girls is similar to Country rock I think. So I just added pop rock anyway."
 * 2601:680:C880:6530:408F:808C:2ADD:2BCA – "I think I found some sources genres. This will work at all."
 * Blocked sock FrizzlyXerox – "I think River of love sounds like Surf music, but Country-Surf."
 * Sockmaster TannerGoethals3 – "Sorry but I add another genres & made it better. I think Rascal Flatts made Country rock & Pop rock. So, Please Do Not Remove them. If you remove them, I respect your opinion."

The new username and the new IP are doing the same old stuff as previous socks and IPs in the /64 range of Special:Contributions/2601:680:C880:6530:0:0:0:0/64. Binksternet (talk) 03:09, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * indefinitely based on behavioral evidence. 2601:680:C880:6530:0:0:0:0/64 has also been blocked for 1 month. Thanks for reporting this. —  Newslinger  talk   12:23, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

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Edits at Second Season (Point Blank album), after a confirmed sock that created the page was blocked. Also, similarity in user handle of TGoethals to TannerGoethals. Socks of a prolific puppetmaster, also adding questionable unsourced statements to BLPs and. Kingsif (talk) 21:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the account indefinitely and the IP for a week. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Not the most elusive sock, this user never seems to have the foresight to hide their unusual name when creating an account and once again we find the familiar "Goethals" being used. On top of that, like all the socks used in the past, this one also focuses specifically on music related articles as well as the addition of unsourced genres. Finally there is their admission on their user page: "All of my blocked accounts were spammers..."  Rob van  vee  05:31, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Cabayi (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)