Is someone/thing mass uncombining of works?

Is someone/thing mass uncombining works that shouldn't be? I have a script that monitors ~ 50 authors works page once a day, and emails me whenever a new work is added by comparing diffs with the previous day. This means when a work is split, I get notified. This morning I saw a very large number of splits which is unusual. In the 5 years of this script, that has never happened before. Typically I see 0 to 2 authors with a split each day, this morning it was 20. Almost all the splits are inappropriate and need to be recombined. Just want to notify in case there is a malicious bot doing mass uncombines.

Authors who had works uncombined:

Rich Cohen (cohenrich)
Tim Cope (copetim)
Blaine Harden (hardenblaine)
Kevin Birmingham (birminghamkevin)
Roger Crowley (crowleyroger)
Eric Blehm (blehmeric)
Keith Bowden (bowdenkeith)
Mitchell Zuckoff (zuckoffmitchell)
Ivo Andrić (andricivo)
Daniyal Mueenuddin (mueenuddindaniyal)
Robert Darnton (darntonrobert)
Fred Pearce (pearcefred)
Edward P. Jones (jonesedwardp)
Nathaniel Philbrick (philbricknathaniel)
Jason Roberts (robertsjason)
Philipp Blom (blomphilipp)
William Langewiesche (langewieschewilliam)
John M. Merriman (merrimanjohn)
Hampton Sides (sideshampton)

Work names available if needed. It's also possible they are new works added by a mass update such as from a library etc.. but they look more like splits from existing works.

I don't think it's splits, but authors being added to books that didn't have them. I was about to post about that. I'll look into it, and let you know in a moment.

Yup. For example, pearcefred (Fred Pearce) has four new works

http://librarything.com/work/12904322
http://librarything.com/work/12904128
http://librarything.com/work/12494671
http://librarything.com/work/17910858

All had no author before. The system looked at all the editions, and decided they should be Fred Pearce books, not authorless books.

Ok, I see, great. Thanks for rescuing author-less works!

Marking as fixed!