Forum:IP advice and oversight question

Sigh... Habbopedia is getting vandalized again. w:c:habbo:Special:Recentchanges. I had a couple of questions about this:

IP addresses
Some of these IP addresses are similar to others also vandalizing - what does this mean? Something about IP ranges or dynamic IPs or whatever? I'm not really sure what to do to fix that up, I don't have a lot of experience with vandalism beyond simple revert-block cycles.  Scott ch  02:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * They are using tor. Semi-live list of tor proxies: http://proxy.org/tor.shtml --Splarka (talk) 04:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Ifigured they were related or coordinated, so I blocked them for long (a month). If it kicks up again, would it be ok to block for longer, like a year or so?  I'm not sure of the policy on proxy blocks, and I do know that shorter blocks on IP addresses are suggested, but it seems that longer blocks have been given the ok for this wiki due to the nature of the vandalism.   Scott  ch  06:40, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If you want, you can block all the IPs on the tor proxy list for 'indefinite' (as furry.wikia does). It is a bit pointless to only block a few of them, as the editor can change IPs very easily. --Splarka (talk) 06:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Oversight
Some of the revisions they submitted are very large, almost a megabyte in some cases. Is it helpful and worth the trouble to have these oversighted, for database space and such? If it is I can post some diffs.  Scott ch  02:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * A MB isn't really much. But oversighting is useless. Oversighting actually moves the revision from the revision table, to a special hidden table which the normal software doesn't read. So actually, oversighting doesn't remove it, it just moves it to a table you can't read. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Jun 8, 2007 @ 02:58 (UTC)
 * Bummer. Well, this is not really related, but if I split a page history to move off all the vandal material (on say, a biography) to a new page, could that new page then be oversighted?  :-\  I know that's kind of unclear.   Scott  ch  03:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)  I guess what I mean is, can a whole page's history be oversighted?  Is it kind of a pain to do, to oversight many edits at once?  And would it be done for simple obscenities in a living person article, or should I just forget it?   Scott  ch  03:02, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oversighting isn't used in any case other than extreme cases such as personal data being put into a page. Just delete the revisions. Oversighting works revision by revision, so you also can't do it all at once. Furthermore because it works on the revision ID and not the page, moving the revisions somewhere else doesn't have a point. Deletion is enough for obscenities. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Jun 8, 2007 @ 03:24 (UTC)

Thanks for any advice on either issue :-)  Scott  ch  02:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)