Quoting Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
That would be much easier if people would stop armwaving and SHOW SOME EXAMPLES.
Come on. If this newbie biting is so rampant, just provide some examples... and then we can talk about those.
I'm not claiming that it's not happening, but boilerplate messages have been implicated I've been looking at their use... and the only thing I've been able to find in a couple of minutes of looking is that we're spending too much time asking obviously malicious people to be nice.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bosox38schilling&old...
The text in question was clearly not notable and not npov. However, it clearly wasn't vandalism. Complete text follows: he is a kid who was born June 22nd 1993 who is really awesome!
He plays soccer and basketball.
He is around 5 ft 3 and really cool!
You would definately want to meet him.
He has a sister and a brother.
Now, I have trouble seeing how a vandalism template in that case was anything but biting.