Module talk:Rail

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This redirect was nominated at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion on 3 February 2019. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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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]

Hi Paine, I have been trying to stay away from the recent module discussions, particularly the move requests, and I'm not sure I can answer your questions intelligently. Hopefully at some point I will be able to deal with these issues more easily, but to me it seems like changing module setups through WP:RM or WP:RFD is asking for trouble. I think the RFC at Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion may clean up some of the process issues and put editors who are technically proficient with the modules in charge of future changes. Dekimasuよ! 04:19, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Paine Ellsworth: It's a hard redirect in that {{#invoke:Rail|...}} is equivalent to {{#invoke:Adjacent stations|...}}. The only way in which it is not a redirect is that actually viewing Module:Rail doesn't get redirected, making this work in much the same way as a template redirect that is nominated at RfD. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 17:27, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]