Talk:Drill Bros.

Baby Drill or Drill Bros.?

In Partners in Time, the move was called Baby Drill. In Bowser's Inside Story, it was called Drill Bros. The article is called Baby Drill. However, Baby Drill does not work at all for the move in Inside Story, but Drill Bros. would be acceptable for both. That, and Drill Bros. is the most recent name, so I think that means it should be the article title. Should I move the page?
Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 11:09, 8 November 2016 (EST)

I'd say move it, but let's wait and see what others have to say. 11:24, 8 November 2016 (EST)

Drill Bros. No question about it. Yoshi the SSM (talk) 11:30, 8 November 2016 (EST)

Per everyone.

Shokora (talk · edits) 11:31, 8 November 2016 (EST)

Drill Bros; the babies only appear in one M&L Game. The RPG Gamer (talk) (edits) 13:03, 8 November 2016 (EST)

After looking over it, this just needs a move and all the links to here changed. Baby Drill is a legit name, but not the most modern. Yoshi the SSM (talk) 13:22, 8 November 2016 (EST)

Looks like it's been decided. I'll go ahead and move the page.

Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 14:05, 8 November 2016 (EST)

Reorganize the Mario & Luigi drilling moves

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Current time: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 07:46 GMT

Every Mario & Luigi game has had some sort of drilling move; Luigi Dunk in Superstar Saga, Baby Drill in Partners in Time, Drill Bros. in Bowser's Inside Story, Mole Mario in Dream Team, and finally Trio Drill in Paper Jam. Currently, the way we handle these is a bit weird. All of them are split into their own pages, with the exception of Baby Drill (Partners in Time) and Drill Bros. (Bowser's Inside Story) which share this page.

Looking over the moves, they are all functionally identical. Luigi Dunk is the only one with any sort of unique characteristic, which is the ability to turn Luigi into a surfboard. Otherwise, the only differences are the name, how the drill is performed, and who does it. We already know from precedent that name alone is not grounds for a split, and moves also don't get split just because multiple characters can use them. That leaves only how the drill is performed; Either the Bros. stack on top of each other and drill into the ground together (Baby Drill/Drill Bros./Trio Drill), or one of the Bros. hammers the other into the ground (Luigi Dunk/Mole Mario). I don't necessarily think that's grounds for a split either.

From here, I've come up with four possible options that we can go with:

1. All drilling moves are merged into one page. Luigi Dunk, Mole Mario, and Trio Drill are merged into Drill Bros.
2. Don't merge any pages, and split Baby Drill for consistency with the other moves.
3. Only the moves that are identical in performance are merged. Trio Drill is merged into Drill Bros., and Luigi Dunk and Mole Mario are merged together into their own page separate from Drill Bros.
4. Do nothing. I don't recommend this because it obviously doesn't solve any of the consistency issues we have in the current situation.

Proposer: Waluigi Time (talk)
Deadline: January 5, 2020, 23:59 GMT

Option 1: Merge all moves to Drill Bros.

1. Waluigi Time (talk) Per proposal.
2. TheDarkStar (talk) - Per proposal and this discussion.

Option 2: Split Baby Drill

1. Waluigi Time (talk) My second choice. I don't necessarily want this, but if we're not going to merge them, we might as well do this.
2. Toadette the Achiever (talk) This is by far a better option. Luigi Dunk and Mole Mario work differently from Baby Drill and Drill Bros.; and Trio Drill works differently from all four of the other variations. Plus this is similar to a proposal that I started that didn't gain a single support vote.