Q: Change Java language's description on SO The Java language description on SO is, well, pretty lackluster. Especially when compared to C, C++, and C#. It's time to update it to something more proper. 
I happen to like this one pulled from wikipedia:

Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented
  computer programming language that is specifically designed to have as
  few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let
  application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that
  code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run
  on another. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode
  (class file) that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless
  of computer architecture.


A: You're apparently worrying about the tag wiki excerpt, and the suggestion you made is way too long to be an excerpt. An excerpt is meant to be a one to three line summary of what the tag is about, to help quickly direct people on proper usage of the tag without making them go to the full tag wiki to find out. A full paragraph from Wikipedia in there is never appropriate. Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with how it is right now. In fact, all of that information you edited into the excerpt is already available in the full wiki.
Further, I must discourage you from copy-pasting directly from Wikipedia. It is rarely ever appropriate because Wikipedia's information often includes useless information buried within useful information. Our tag wikis, as mentioned previously, are there to guide users on proper use of the tag, provide basic need-to-know knowledge about the tag, and direct them to further resources that they might find useful in programming. Including a full history lesson from Wikipedia is not something we care to have in our tag wiki. If a user wants a history lesson, they can follow the link to Wikipedia for that.
