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Is there anything the the "citation needed span" template for references on Wikipedia?

Here, the text being verified by the reference is ambiguous:

All trees are tall, and some are very tall.<ref>source1</ref>

It would be better if the text being verified could be placed inside a template, so that it is clear what the reference refers to:

All trees are tall, and {{reference span|some are very tall.|<ref>source1</ref>}}

Is there any existing template on Wikipedia that can do this (to clarify what a given reference specifically refers to?) The "clarify span" template works similarly, so it probably wouldn't be difficult to create a template that does what I want it to do.

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A question is whether doing this would clutter up the code too much for little benefit. – svick Nov 29 '12 at 22:02
@svick The references can get very confusing when you have multiple references in quick succession: it becomes unclear what each reference is supposed to verify. If an article has a single reference, it isn't always clear whether the reference is supposed to verify all preceding text, or just the last few sentences before the reference. – Anderson Green Nov 29 '12 at 22:15
@svick Here's a similar template (but it doesn't allow citations to be included): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation_needed_span – Anderson Green Nov 29 '12 at 22:31

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