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This is a simple template used to identify and correctly format interpolations in quoted material. These interpolations add to or replace portions of a quote (frequently pronouns, or some other unclear referent) to make clear to readers information that is supplied by the context of the quote. For instance, the original quote might be:

:"It's a complete trainwreck of a film. The director can't even come close to matching the genius of his obvious inspiration, Hitchcock."

With interpolations, the quote could be:

:"[''Strangers on a Segway'' is] a complete trainwreck of a film. [Alan Smithee] can't even come close to matching the genius of his obvious inspiration, [Alfred] Hitchcock."

The same effect could be achieved without interpolation by breaking up the quote into pieces, for instance:

:Critic Bodger Leebert called ''Strangers on a Segway'' a "complete trainwreck of a film," and said that Alan Smithee "can't even come close to matching the genius of his obvious inspiration, Hitchcock" (presumably Alfred Hitchcock).

However, in many cases interpolation may be preferable as a way of clarifying ambiguous referents, since it keeps the flow of the quote intact.

===Usage===

The usage is very simple; simply use the words to be interpolated as the only argument to the template call:

:''<nowiki>{{interp|Alan Smithee}}</nowiki>'' produces ''<nowiki>[</nowiki>Alan Smithee<nowiki>]</nowiki>''

===Further development===

There might be an argument for including an optional parameter that would record the actual words being replaced; thus making it possible to reproduce the original quote and lessening fears that the interpolations actually claim more than the context supports (a form of [[misquotation]].) It's unclear, however, where or how that parameter would be rendered.

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