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To editor Dekimasu: just out of curiosity, would this be a soft redirect or a hard one? If invoked, would it behave just like Module:Adjacent stations? (Note above that this was nominated for discussion at Rfd.) Paine Ellsworth, ed.  put'r there  01:41, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To editor Dekimasu: probably should have just asked you if you know if this works at all as a true module redirect. Not questioning that redirects cannot be left behind during a module move; however, I do wonder if a redirect like this one could be manually left behind rather than adjusting all the templates and modules where a moved module was invoked? Paine Ellsworth, ed.  put'r there  18:06, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is technically not possible to redirect to a module. When a module is invoked, the module is executed with the result being a table that the caller can use in any way that works. What is possible is for someone to check how a particular module works at the moment and put some very small code at the "redirect" page which executes the target module and returns its table. However, that is different from #REDIRECT. Johnuniq (talk) 23:44, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed a relevant report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Blue linked module page with an empty history. Johnuniq (talk) 23:55, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]