Thread:Project:Support desk/Moving without leaving redirects but fixing the referencing pages?/reply

First you can move a page without leaving a redirect by simply unchecking the "create redirect" checkbox during the move.

Second there is no automatic way to update all internal links; iIrc in some Wikipedias a bot is used to do that.

Third you never know if there are really zero external links pointing to the now redirected page - which all would break, if you removed the redirect.