Confused about the change from "professional" to "business environment"

Question

Take this question: https://serverfault.com/questions/657861/changing-dns-from-godaddy-to-ovh. With the old guidelines, I would have flagged the question as off-topic. The asker:

• Does not know enough about their problem to include the right details.
• Does not show sufficient skill in the technology under question to be able to work on it for pay.
• Does not demonstrate knowledge of better-practices through how their environment is put together.

But I could not find enough information on the new guidelines, so I don't know if the question should be closed.

With the old guidelines, if the question was closed and the asker wondered what he did wrong, he could click on the word "professional" in the rationale for closing. The word was a link and took you to a place that explained what was required. But now, is "in a business environment" going to be a link? (It is not in the flagging pop-up.) And where is it going to take you?

My understanding of https://serverfault.com/help/on-topic is that, if the asker could be doing this for business, it is a valid question. Before, doing it for business was not enough. However, the rationale presented at http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6812/proposed-change-to-server-fault-guidelines-round-2/ seems to imply that the guideline change is more in wording than in policy. This is what confuses me.

Answer 1

the rationale presented at Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2 seems to imply that the guideline change is more in wording than in policy.

That understanding is correct. Evidently, the use of the word "professional" in the sense of having standards and "doing it right" was confusing to some people, so the wording was changed.

However, I would say that this particular question shouldn't be closed under the "not professional" reason, but the "minimal understanding" reason... which has also been rewritten.

The text of that new minimal understanding reason seems to sum it up pretty well:

Questions seeking installation, configuration or diagnostic help must include the desired end state, the specific problem or error, sufficient information about the configuration and environment to reproduce it, and attempted solutions. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers and are unlikely to get good answers.

Whether or not this is a professional install or demonstrates "reasonable business information technology management practices," there's just not enough information to properly diagnose the problem, so that's how I would flag and/or close vote on this particular question.