Mathematical Explanation of Mathematica Summation ${\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(2n-1)!}{(2n+2)!}\zeta(2n)}$

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From a mathematical point of view, what phenomena that most likely Mathematica Wolfram encountered when calculating: $$ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(2n-1)!}{(2n+2)!}\zeta(2n)\,=\,\color{red}{\frac{2\log(2\pi)-3}{8}+\frac{\zeta(3)}{8\pi^2}} $$ which is incorrect.

While calculating the sum from this question, I noticed that Wolfram result is containing ${\small\,\frac{\zeta(3)}{8\pi^2}\,}$, which is incorrect. Although I realized that this could be a bug, I started to wonder if there are any logical explanation behind this miscalculation! Has Wolfram algorithm encountered something similar to Riemann Rearrangement Theorem?

Doing more investigations, it turns-out that Wolfram is incorrectly miscalculating the closed form of an entire class of zeta summation, except the last case which is correct. $$ \small \begin{align} \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)}{(n+a)(n+b)\dots} &= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\left[A\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)}{n+a}+B\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)}{n+b}+\dots\right] = \\ C+\,\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)-1}{(n+a)(n+b)\dots} &= \color{darkgreen}{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\left[A\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)-1}{n+a}+B\frac{\zeta(\alpha\,n)-1}{n+b}+\dots\right]\,+C} \end{align} $$ And with the appearance of this case (the last correct closed form), I believe there is a mathematical explanation regarding a correct summation method or algorithm that gives a kind of systematic incorrect closed form if it applied in a certain way. Appreciating if someone can explore this and alert us regardless of any bug that may exist in any math app. Thanks.

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Only a note.

WolframAlpha can calculate $\enspace\text{Sum[Zeta[2n]*(2n-1)!/(2n+1)!,{n,1,Infinity}]}$

$\displaystyle \left(=\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\zeta(2n)(2n-1)!}{(2n+1)!}\right)\enspace$ exactly

but can only approximate $\enspace\text{Sum[Zeta[2n]*(2n)!/(2n+2)!,{n,1,Infinity}]}$

$\displaystyle \left(=\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\zeta(2n)(2n)!}{(2n+2)!}\right)$.

This is indeed strange, because the difficulty is about the same. WolframAlpha has problems with slow converging series.

Maybe the term $\,\,\text{$\zeta(3)/(8\pi^2$)}\,\,$ is by chance, because the calculation inaccuracy seems to be very close to this term at some point of the calculations.

It's interesting, that WolframAlpha calculates

$\,\,\text{Sum[Zeta[2n](2n-1)!/(2n+3)!,{n,1,Infinity}]}\,\,$ $\displaystyle \left(=\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\zeta(2n)(2n-1)!}{(2n+3)!}\right)$

exactly including $\,\text{$\zeta(3)/(8\pi^2$)}$, here $\,\text{$9\zeta(3)/(72\pi^2$)}\,$ .