I apologize if I missed it, but what is the difference between the two starter themes and why you broke them out this way. I did not see anything in the readme or docs.

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jurriaanroelofs commented
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Hi, there is information about the starterkits in the README.TXT file:

* Which starter theme to use?
For a small site with few templates arctica_starterkit is perfect.
For a big site that may have many overrides, templates, stylesheets and
functions arctica_starterkit_bigtheme will provide the necessary structure.

So the big starterkit has a different organisation of files, this becomes useful if you are developing big websites that have lots of theming work. For big Drupal sites it's not uncommon to have 30+ template files, tons of functions and function overrides, different color schemes etcetera. The big starterkit is just a good start of organising your theme files in such a way that you keep an overview of your code when it grows and grows.

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blainelang commented

I saw that one sentence but didn't think it described more then the obvious. If just breaking it out into some extra folders is the only difference then fine - and suggest that you also state that's the only difference and there is no functionality difference.