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MadHatter
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I entirely agree with everything the other two answers say. However, something that occurred to me reading your question was your use of the word professional. You use it, or variants, 12 times in your question, and each time it's as a word on its own.

The two answers, however, almost entirely use professional immediately followed by system administration (or equivalent).

I think that may identify a significant error in your assumptions about the issue. Iain makes a similar comment above, but I thought this was such an important misunderstanding that it was worth pulling out into an answer.

We're not after some nebulous form of professionalism here, some general code of conduct that suggests appropriateness for the workplace. Despite what you think, we're not closing questions to send the message "Your question is not professional, come back when it is".

As the close text says, we're closing questions because they're not about professional system administration. There is some discussion about exactly what that comprises, but it seems to have strong elements of "I'm trying to do something that would be normal in a production setup" and "I have the necessary basic skillset to do it".

A question that satisfies those is, at least to me, entirely on-topic and worthy of assistance, however badly-written or incomplete it is. It may take some clarification, some teasing-out of details in comments, and that's fine. But a question that doesn't satisfy those on the face of it should be closed, for this is simply not the place for it.

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