Talk:Outline of arithmetic

message: From the section Basic arithmetic concepts, I have removed the following:
Mathematics education -- National Numeracy Strategy -- Numeracy -- Standards-based mathematics -- Traditional mathematics - Pre-algebra
These are not topics in arithmetic per se, but rather in mathematics education. I will be paring the list further and will collect all trimmed topics here. JFPerry 17:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topics removed from listing 

message: See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 01:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" 

message: See the proposal at the Village pump
The Transhumanist 09:08, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to 

message: Hey folks!  Please base articles on sources, not on opinions about what stuff is about.  Arithmetic remains a major area of mathematical research.  In fact, until recently one could collect two million dollars to solve some basic problems in arithmetic that had been outstanding for over a hundred years.  Unfortunately, only one million is currently available. 71.182.216.55 (talk) 05:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: hey.... maybe you didn't pay attention, but this header is ambiguous  :-)   pma (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obviously written by chimpanzees 

message: Due to a number of undiscussed moves, a proposal was made to rename outlines to "List of ... topics". 
The proposal failed.
Therefore, based on the outcome of that discussion (which lasted from Sept 6 to Oct 12), I'm restoring the title of this article to "Outline of arithmetic".  I have waited for that discussion to be completed to revert the undiscussed move of this page that occurred on Sept 6th.
Note that this article has been named "Outline of arithmetic" since June 11, 2009, having been renamed from "Topical outline of arithmetic" which it was named since January 8, 2009.  All the articles named "Topical outline of" were renamed from "List of basic ... topics" on January 8, 2009 or thereabouts. The entire basic topics department was renamed at that time, because the lists had grown beyond the scope of "basic". 
Until the recent rename, this article had never been named "List of arithmetic topics".
 
Recently, there were a number of mathematics-related lists renamed to outlines by a new editor who rampaged through several departments.  Outline of arithmetic was not one of them.  See [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2011/Sep#Undiscussed List -> Outline moves]].
Apparently during the repair of that mass move, 3 outlines were named to "List of" that were not part of the mass move. This outline was  one of the 3.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 03:20, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal defeated, three "Outline of" titles restored 

message: "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation.  The Transhumanist 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines