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Creating a canonical "A: Hire a professional" question

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: Unqualified "professionals"

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

Comments?

Edit: the new close reasons are looking like a good way to go with this.

Andrew
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