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==Supplement page==
Further to earlier discussions, a general principle would be to keep compelling stuff and major characters (Noah, Moses etc.) for the main page as people are most interested in where those stories come from, though the more tenuous examples about a major character could nevertheless be moved to the supplement. I think the things listed below could potentially be moved:

* Queen of Sheba (somewhat tenuous due to dating controversy and a minor character)
* Jacob tells his sons to not enter through one gate (minor character, not very interesting example)
* Every living thing from water (already available on sci miracles, which is the main page where people would look for it anyway)
* Moses, Aaron and the Samiri (certainly the Aaron's beard part is too tenuous for the main article)
* Other details subsection of Jesus, Mary, and the Palm Tree (too tenuous for the main article)
* The big Neuwirth quote about Pharoah's magicians at the end of late antique martyrdom should have the start and end trimmed off or entirely removed as it only adds a few highly technical details beyond the summary in the preceding paragraph.

Altogether that's at least 19k characters (including references), which would bring the main page down to 189k (source edit char count). If we need more, there are cases where some big quotes aren't really essential or could be shortened.

There are also some new examples in CPO675's Sandbox_1 (i.e. not the ones pasted from the main article). Souls taken away at night and arguments for resurrection are too tenuous even for the supplement, but good ones for the supplement would be ranks of believers, suckling for 2 years, shooting stars, expansions on the afterlife, khalāq, maybe sakīnah. 

In addition to links at the end of existing sections (e.g. "See the supplement to this article for futher examples about Moses"), we could also have a section at the end of the main article called "Supplementary examples" which will simply provide a link to the supplement page. [[User:Lightyears|Lightyears]] ([[User talk:Lightyears|talk]]) 23:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

That sounds good to me and makes sense - I would also put the 'Jinn created from fire' into the supplement as it's not an exact parallel unless you think it's worth keeping? [[User:CPO675|CPO675]] ([[User talk:CPO675|talk]]) 18:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)
:Agreed, that's another good one for the supplement. Ranks of believers and expansions on the afterlife in the sandbox would both make for short and powerful theological parallels to have on the main page if possible, so I think moving this would help to accommodate those on the main page (I also see a few little tidy up opportunities here and there which will also help). [[User:Lightyears|Lightyears]] ([[User talk:Lightyears|talk]]) 23:28, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I am good to start off twith this material and then see if there's anything else that sticks out.--[[User:Asmith|Asmith]] ([[User talk:Asmith|talk]]) 22:58, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

May I start breaking the material out? Any more discussion?--[[User:Asmith|Asmith]] ([[User talk:Asmith|talk]]) 23:33, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

:It's ok, I've already done it and have created [[Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature (Supplement)]]. The net reduction to the main article is 17k chars. That's after I did the above, but also added a couple of things from CPO675's sandbox to the main article, then also found some other small things to trim and another section to remove per page history comment. [[User:Lightyears|Lightyears]] ([[User talk:Lightyears|talk]]) 00:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)