NOT A BOOK vs. Not a book

[Lisa]

I just marked some items with NOT A BOOK for the author and I noticed that these changed automatically to "Not a book" as did many other NOT A BOOK authors.

Does anybody know why. Is Goodreads doing this deliberately?

Should we be marking NAB items with the author as Not a book and NOT A BOOK. I do believe these will show up as 2 different authors. Not that it really matters I suppose, as these items aren't books.

[Carolyn]

I always use the caps myself, but I hadn't noticed them defaulting to the lower case version.
I'll check the next time I NAB something.

If they are showing up as different authors, someone will just need to combine the two names, I would think.

[Lisa]

Carolyn, This just started happening to me today.

If it's going to continue to happen (I don't know but it's why I asked) I guess that NOT A BOOK author should be merged with/changed to Not a book.

Edit: It just started happening to me today but it looks as though the author's name for NOT A BOOK has changed to Not a book for some, but not all, old entries/changes too.

[Melody]

It was me - I thought I saw an extra space in a NOT A BOOK listing and typed Not a Book to get them to merge - and I'll change it back. Meant to do that right away - but got distracted.

[Lisa]

Oh, ok. Thanks Melody. That's weird though because there was not near the number of works for Not a book as there used to be last time I checked for NOT A BOOK. Also, immediately as I changed the author to NOT A BOOK when the book's title page came back on screen it showed as Not a book.