In any case the information is not contradictory at all (all sources call it a carrier, WC Bible says it was based on the Waterloo hull). What happened is someone somewhere got the idea the Jutland was a fleet carrier, and arbitrarily decided such fleet carrier had to be a kitbash of the Victory and Concordia. It started off as a neat fan concept, but then some people took it a bit too seriously.
You know, it's really much more complicated than that. As I mention in
this thread, the Bible's mention of the Jutlands as a modification of the Waterloo
was noted almost immediately after the Bible showed up online, but everyone decided that this is a mistake in the Bible rather than an intentional reference.
As for how the model itself, and the Jutland's stats were developed, I don't think you give us fan project folks justice here, with your "someone got the idea" and "arbitrarily decided". You make it sound like we did this ignoring basic facts - the exact opposite is the case. If the Jutland was not a Waterloo modification (which is the conclusion reached back then), then what was it? It's a CVA, and it is mentioned in the Confed Handbook that a new design would be replacing the Bengal class. The connection was made, and we reached the conclusion - by logic, not by arbitrary "I feel like it" decisions - that Jutland class carriers are big and powerful, being in some ways superior to the Bengal class ships that they're supposed to replace. That's what we went with in Standoff, as far as stats go. In the meantime, the Saga folks (who, like Standoff, were keen to make some us of the Jutland class, and were going through these same thought processes independently of us) came up with a very pretty model for these ships. The model is, as you say, a "kitbash" of the Concordia and... errr, the Concordia class. Is this an "arbitrary decision"? Well, it certainly is
a decision - reasonably, once we'd all reached the conclusion that the Jutland is a previously-unseen ship, the question of what it looked like had to be resolved one way or the other
. I don't see anything arbitrary about it, though - Lynx (who, IIRC, made the Saga model - which is also what Standoff's model is based on) very reasonably decided that a CVA in the late 2660s would share design features with other capital ships that were to be seen at that point in the timeline. He could, I suppose, have come up with a completely different design, something utterly new.... but contrary to popular belief, fan projects, as much as they want to introduce new things (that's the fun of it - and that's why, I suppose, we all wanted to use the Jutland one way or another), are generally very conservative. Our objective is to fit in as seamlessly as possible - so even when we come up with new ships, we put in a lot of effort (sometimes too much, like when we name a new capship "Targu II" just to make a reference to previous Kilrathi frigates
) to make it look and feel like a solid part of the universe.
(...and then, when it turns out we failed, we go and write long-winded posts to at least justify our reasoning
)