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WP university assignment 2
I am looking at adding further information to the HMS Hardy (1912) article that I believe other students in my group have also worked on. The information there is good and verifiable, but I am wanting to add further information on certain aspects.

Editing the article
I want to add further information to the opening statement:

"HMS Hardy was a Royal Navy ship that was one of 20 Acasta-class destroyers. Serving during World War I, she was part of the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Hardy was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company and laid down on 13 November 1911. The ship was launched on 10 October 1912 and completed on 1 September 1913.[1]"

So that it now reads:

"HMS Hardy was a Royal Navy ship that was one of 20 Acasta-class destroyers. Serving during World War I, she was part of the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Hardy was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company and laid down on 13 November 1911. The ship was launched on 10 October 1912 and completed on 1 September 1913.[1] She was the 6th vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name Hardy and the 3rd to receive battle honours."

I have also added a reference, which backs up the statement.

Timeline of the HMS Hardy
I am wanting to add a timeline of the ships short lifespan, which saw action at the Battle of Jutland which is said to be biggest naval battle in history.


 * 10th October 1912 - HMS Hardy is launched in Woolston, Southampton after being built by Thornycroft.
 * 8th August 1914 - HMS Hardy joins the 4th Flotilla of the Grand Fleet.
 * 16th December 1914 - HMS Hardy is used to defend Britain in the German raid on England's east coast in which she suffers damage and has to be escorted back to port under the guidance of Spitfires.
 * 1916 - HMS Hardy joins the 4th Destroyers Flotilla in the Humber after being transferred from Portsmouth.
 * 31st May 1916 - Commander R.A.A. Plowden takes command of HMS Hardy during the participation of the Battle of Jutland. HMS Hardy becomes the third vessel of the Hardy name to be awarded Battle Honours.
 * 1917 - HMS Hardy is transferred to HMNB Devonport
 * November 1918 - HMS Hardy joins the 4th Destroyers Flotilla of Devonport.
 * May 1921 - HMS Hardy is sold for breaking and scrap.

List of the dead & wounded
I have found a list of the crew that were injured or killed during their service on the HMS Hardy, providing I can find a verifiable source I would like to add this to the article.

Follow up: I was unable find a second source to back up the information on the dead and wounded. The numbers add up but names are different, therefore I have decided to leave it off the article for the time being.

WP university assignment
I have looked at the Computer animation article and noticed that some of the sub articles are written informally and could do with being re-written or adjusted to a more encyclopedic manner. I will edit out the personal opinions and interpretations to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view fundamental principle as part of the Five pillars policy and, if necessary, add verifiable citations to the arguments posed.

Editing the Computer animation article
I was going to add a citation specifically to this statement in the Computer animation article: "In theory, realistic computer animation can reach a point where it is indistinguishable from real action captured on film. Where computer animation achieves this level of realism, it may have major repercussions for the film industry." but I struggled to find any sources to either prove or disprove the statement. As I can understand, though don't agree, with the statement I will leave it be for now for the sake of my university assignment but I may continue to search afterwards as I feel the article could benefit from being more modern and up to date - which would involve removing any content that could potentially weaken it as well as adding to strengthen it.

History
Early digital computer animation was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll. Other digital animation was also practiced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

An early step in the history of computer animation was the sequel to the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans. The sequel, Futureworld (1976), used 3D Wire-frame imagery which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by University of Utah graduates Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Developments in CGI technologies are reported each year at SIGGRAPH, an annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques which is attended each year by tens of thousands of computer professionals. Developers of computer games and 3D video cards strive to achieve the same visual quality on personal computers in real-time as is possible for CGI films and animation. With rapid advancement of real-time rendering quality, artists began to use game engines to render non-interactive movies, leading to the art form Machinima.

The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar. It followed an adventure centered around toys and their owners. The groundbreaking film was the first of many fully computer animated films.

Computer animation created blockbuster films such as Toy Story 3 (2010), Avatar (2009), Shrek 2 (2004), and Cars 2 (2011).

The above is a sub-heading of the article Computer animation I have edited in an attempt to make it read more fluently and formally. Jbaron88 (talk) 00:49, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Notable Computer Animation Studios

 * Pixar - Notable for Toy Story (1995) and Up (2009)
 * DreamWorks - Notable for Shrek (2001) and Kung Fu Panda (2008)
 * Disney - Notable for Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Bolt (2008)
 * ILM - Notable for work on Star Wars (1977) and The Avengers (2012)
 * Digital Domain - Notable for work on Armageddon (1998) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

I have also added a list of notable computer animation studios as there seems to be many mentions of the films that are created but hardly any of the studios that made or worked on them.

As well as this list I have added List of animation studios to the See Also section at the bottom of the page. Jbaron88 (talk) 00:50, 4 March 2013 (UTC)