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  >1. You still haven't answered why other more authorative sites such as ChemSpider also display ball-and-stick as per the later Wiki version. (If more than one authorative site does so then there must be some reason for it - for this common consistency.)

I do not owe you any answer, let alone why someone who is not me decides to represent anything in any form. Both versions (the original ball-and-stick model and the current skeletal structure) are valid, though one of them accounts for protolysis, and one doesn't.

  >2. You have failed to realize the significance of being consistent in presentation especially when stuff is presented in encyclopedic form.

My point was not that the current version is or isn't consistent, my point was that it is WRONG.

  >except for geniuses such as yourself of course

Next to you, I would appear that way. Go to the current version (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#/media/File:Aspartam...) and count the hydrogen atoms. Then compare to the actual molecular formula of aspartame.

I'll accept an apology, but please stop being this obtuse.

[hilbert42]

Armistice and olive branch. :-)

I accept your point. As I said earlier, I'm not arguing the chemistry, it's just the issues aren't the same (from my perspective anyway).

[tnbp]

I'll take it :-)