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 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 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 N