4.86 ship models

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The wiki is a resource that people can go to and see what is currently on the 24/7 server. That is what we've been using it as since I started working on it quite a while ago. We've already had discussions about letting there be faction pages and similar for other servers that run the mod, and it always came out with a clear "No, when in doubt use what is on the GC server". I see this as similar - having the ship pages as they are, with a few of them having new models, is deliberately showing things that are not currently a part of the game, and as such I don't see how they should be allowed.
Doing the "compromise" of showing more than one model in the ship infobox/template is just stupid, makes the page look dumb, and opens a can of worms because then you'll have 27 pictures of all models that were used for the ship at any point since the mod started. And for that reason, even if that poll option wins it's not gonna happen unless Blodo is for it, since he and I are the people who can lock pages on the wiki (and Igiss doesn't meddle in the day to day affairs of it).

So what I'm proposing here is to revert the image in the infobox to the current model that you see in the game, leave the infobox that way, and if someone really wants to add "future models" to the page, put it in a different section at the bottom of the page that clearly says "this is what the ship will look like in 2015, or whenever 4.86 comes out, which might be even later". When the mod finally does come out (and assuming I haven't died of old age or gotten sick of this game), I'll render all the new models with the same lighting and at the same angles as the existing pictures and replace them. But for now, "fan art" (which is essentially what the 'prerelease' images are), does not belong in the template and should be uploaded with new file names instead of overwriting the official pictures.

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