"to point out that, based on the current article sizes, the resulting article will be close to or slightly exceed the recommended article size limit.  
Oppose merger.  The Mesopotamia article could do with some expansion in several sections, while the History of Ancient Mesopotamia article could as well, but mainly, would suffer greatly if downsized.  A merger makes no sense, based on article size.  Wikipedia has is fair share History of articles.  I can't see a reason to get rid of it.  *shrug*  
Oppose merger. Articles that try to cover too much become long and overly complicated to read. Basically I like the Mesopotamia article. Although it could benefit from some expansion and clarification, it is a good summary article.   
the point is that as the ToC was organized, the 'history' article is the ""main"" article of about 90% of this article. That doesn't make sense. Maybe change ""history"" to ""timeline"", and make this one the ""ancient Mesopotamia"" article.  (ᛏ) 
You are probably right. I am just learning about Mesopotamia through reading these articles and I found this article the most helpful (to me) of the ones I have come across so far. I have not read all of them but some are almost incomprehensible to an uninformed person.   

 Map 

We need a better map for this article. The current one doesn't even include Eridu.  
Eridu is seven miles from Ur. There is only so much detail you can cram into a thumbnail overview map. But you are welcome to fire up the GIMP, of course.  (ᛏ) 

A map of Mesopotamia with the current political boundaries would be beneficial in giving people a better understanding of its location.   

 Bibliography 
Can this article be extended with a list of well-known standard works on Mesopotamia and its history? Would be nice, thanks

 Law examples 

On this page (under ""Laws"") there were about 30 examples of laws from the Code of Hammurabi. I have moved them to the article Code of Hammurabi, since I think that is their proper place. I really think that article should contain the entire set of laws (since it is not so big), and I will probably make an effort to do this (but not right now). If someone else feel the urge, it would be greatly appreciated. The entire set can be found here:

 English translation of the code

My regards, Dennis Nilsson.  talk - contribs 

 Enlil 

Under the section on Mesopotamian gods, it is stated that Enlil is the most important god in the Mesopotamian region. I believe that statement is somewhat misleading. To my knowledge, over the thousands of years of Mesopotamian history, that honor changed hands quite a few times depending on what particular group held power. It should either be qualified or changed; if I have some time later, I will try to come up with a more constructive suggestion for changing it, but for now I wanted to pose it to discussion group to make sure I wasn't just splitting hairs. Any thoughts?  

 Games 

I doubt that ""Cuniform was fun too."" in the 5.2 Games section is quite up to the finest quality one could hope in such a page. Could someone consider this?

 Textbook? 

HUGE parts of this article looks as if it's been copy right out of a textbook. Especially the Religion part... Could someone fix this.  

 wiki spam 
There was some wiki spam in this that I took out.  It was somehow triggered or near this code (see the source under ""edit"" of this page - which I couldn't get to reproduce.. ??:

Scheffler, Thomas; 2003. “ 'Fertile crescent', 'Orient', 'Middle East': the changing mental maps of Souhwest Asia,” European Review of History 10/2: 253–272. Also: Bahrani, Zainab; 1998. “Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past"", in Archaeology under fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediteranean and Middle East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge: London and New York, 159–174..
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