Are numbers symbols?

BUR #16440 has been rejected.

mass update dated_commentary symbol-only_commentary -> -symbol-only_commentary

According to Wikipedia, "individual numbers can be represented by symbols, called numerals; for example, '5' is a numeral that represents the number five." But letters are also symbols and we don't seem to tag letters not forming words as symbol-only commentary like in post #2546794.

The symbol-only commentary wiki doesn't mention if commentaries only containing numbers or the date would qualify for the tag. I cannot find any discussion of this, with the closest being forum #192422. The wiki needs to make this clearer, and voting on this BUR will decide if we agree numbers count towards symbol-only commentary or not.

As mentioned on Discord, whenever I see a commentary that's just a date, the tag that comes to mind is definitely not S-O_C. I might consider it (think I have?) if I just see a random jumble of numbers.

Do vote for updating+clarifying the wikis of both. Personal preference would be that date-only commentaries don't have the S-O_C tag. Don't know if we have to formally restrict usage of it when the commentary is just random numbers stuck together or not.

Checking the commentaries, it's mostly not because people are treating numbers as symbols, but because the posts have only symbols and dates in the commentary. But yeah.

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