2011/9/16 M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
It's not irrelevant because if approved, it could be added to list of pending name changes.
The problem with the request is that it's not in the scope of Language committee. Renaming "zh-min-nan" into "nan" is in the scope, as it deals with simple code change. Renaming "als" into "<whatever>" is also inside of the LangCom scope, as "als" is not proper code. At the other side, stability requires that "fa" stays as "fa", as "fa" is implicitly Farsi (besides being "macrolanguage" Persian).
However, requiring that one project doesn't include texts written in other language and/or requiring that one project doesn't promote itself as the home project for other languages which have their Wikimedia projects -- that's the task for community and/or WMF; likely for GRC. If we want to solve the problem properly. LangCom should be consulted in this case, but it's not LangCom's which should deal with dispute resolution among couple of communities.