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Why I can't refer to sources in the internet for my proposed 'Dorothy Dodds' page

When Anne Labuschagne (e-mail: gmol@iafrica.com) found the two sketchbooks by her aunt, Dorothy Dodds, she came to me to have the pages (some 120) scanned. They are watercolours on silk paper in sketchbooks Dorothy had bought in the 1920th and 1930th. It was quite a job to electronically clean the scans! I made a website, http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/doddsweb/doddsd.html, with my own texts (from information and letters I was given by Anne) and most of the illustrations from the sketchbooks. You will see that this wonderful artist does not deserve to be forgotten. Since Dorothy lived before the age of the Internet, my website is the first information found on her. There are letters available as a source, when Ruth Neser, Dorothy's sister tried to get the paintings published by the Botanical Society. (Although Dr Rourke was enchanted with her work, he had to decline, because there were not enough different species for a textbook)

The page at Wikipedia I propose to publish will show a dozen of Dorothy Dodds's watercolours. Rosemarie Breuer

P.S. I made a website promoting some 600 Stellenbosch authors of books, among them G.O. Neser: http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/neserg.html Many of the texts in this website have been used (with my permission) for Wikipedia pages of South African writers.