There's been discussion on chat for quite a while now about creating a canonical question along the lines of:

> Q: Our last guy who was our expert in system XYZ left, HALP?
>
> A: Hire someone.
>
> Q: I'm not a systems admin and I broke something, HALP?
>
> A: Hire someone.
>
> Q: I'm the sole IT guy and they're asking me to do XYZ, HALP?
>
> A: Hire someone.

i.e. a whole category of questions where the correct *professional* response seems to be  "Hire a consultant / replacement because you need a professional sysadmin / expert in XYZ".

Related: https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1127/unqualified-professionals

If not a canonical question, then a section in the Help Center.

Comments?

**Edit**: the [new close reasons](https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/5605/new-close-reasons-proposals-july-2013) are looking like a good way to go with this.