Template talk:Current US state Chief Justices

Default for the lead court name?
I get the impression that the er highest court in the state defaults to "Supreme". This is probably fine for most states. Not for New Yorl! The highest court in the state is New York Court of Appeals. Worse, there are 62 Supreme Courts in New York State. Hope a name change can be affected here. Having said that, the name of the incumbent is correct for their top court, even though she graduated from the "Supreme" Court a long time ago! Student7 (talk) 23:49, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The template link for New York goes to the Court of Appeals, as it should. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 00:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This broke at some point, I have just fixed it. Choor monster (talk) 15:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Oklahoma and Texas
Oklahoma and Texas have two Supreme Courts, Civil which is linked to by the state abbreviation, and Criminal, which is linked to in the footnote. Note that the WP page for the Oklahoma CCA lists the wrong Presiding Judge, see. I'll fix it later if no one else does. Choor monster (talk) 11:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

XY_link usage
The XY_link system is being used for three purposes.

First, NY_link is mandatory, since the default name "New York Supreme Court" is a name for something other than the highest court in New York, and therefore cannot be a redirect.

Second, XY_link for several other states/territories is used to link to the official name (or the version used in Wikipedia, for example, a superfluous "Commonwealth" is often omitted). However, WP is sometimes wrong (RI, AL, maybe others).

This is optional, though, since redirects are usable here. There is nothing wrong with relying on redirects, however, it's nice to have the correct name show up on mouse-overs.

Third, WA_link is used for "Washington Supreme Court", since the default is "Washington (state) Supreme Court". This is presumably because the parent template leaves the disambiguation linking in. (Things like "History of Washington (state)" have to be distinguished from "History of Washington, D.C.", say.) Georgia is the only other state with a similar issue, but in this case, the default suffix works.

Again, using this is optional, since the redirect works, and again, it's nice to have have the correct name show up on mouse-overs. Choor monster (talk) 15:33, 28 March 2014 (UTC)