Fixing capitalization typo in author's name?

[Stephanie]

This has been driving me up the wall for 3 days -- the author's name should be Alden G. Stevens, but it had a typo and showed up as ALden G. Stevens, with two capital letters in his first name. I'm a Goodreads librarian, so I figured easy fix, but no.

No matter how many times I change the upper case L to a lowercase one, it reverts to the original formatting. I've tried changing his name to Alden Stevens and adding Alden G. Stevens as a secondary author later, but STILL it reverts. He only had one book on this site (Lion Boy's White Brother), so I tried adding another one of his, but that too reverted to "ALden G. Stevens" the moment I hit the button to process the addition.

The only way I could change it was to remove the period after the initial, which bugs me less than the typo, but still bugs. Does anyone know a way to fix this, or is this an over-our-heads, Goodreads-web-developer issue?

[Stephanie]

I did not even think about the author page! Thank you so much.

(I was trying the different-name thing, but I guess I made it too similar since it didn't seem to be working.)

[Scott]

Try changing it to John Jacob Jingelheimer-Schmidt.

[lethe]

C. wrote: "The workaround is to make it not be similar (different methods to accomplish this), save it, then go back and edit to the correct name."

This is a good workaround for when you have to add a name that the system deems too similar to an existing one.

If the existing author name is wrong, the thing to do is to change it on the author page.

[Suzi]

If you change it on the book record, it leaves the incorrect author record out there with nothing attached to it. But sometimes it's the only way.