User:ElegantlyClandestine
Wikipedia editor
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Nicole Holloway (born 18 February 2005; age 21), also known in Wikipedia as elegantlyclandestine[a][b] is an Australian editor with a penchant for editing random articles sporadically when she feels like it.[c]
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In a time when Holloway was once active, she edited on some of the more popular pages at the time, including Morbius, the 2022 film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front and Saw X. She also contributed heavily with 1,000-2,000+ byte edits or back-to-back edits to articles, examples being Dear David,[1][2][f] Saw X,[3][g] Nowhere,[4] The Wolf Among Us 2,[5] Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate,[h] among others.[i][j] She is known for her random behaviour, which is apparent with her editing of random articles at also seemingly random times.[k] Her first edit was on the English Wikipedia's page for the Angry Video Game Nerd (in which she had a majority of her edits until she started contributing to Saw X, then Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate), where she added information on its Premise section relating to Gilbert Gottfried's appearance in an Angry Video Game Nerd episode.[10]
Personal life
Holloway resides in Perth, Australia. She is in a relationship as of 29 March 2019,[l] but they were once contentious about their relationship between 1-21 October 2023.[m]
Interests
Holloway was once into songs and movies[n] either liked or made by Taylor Swift[o] (however, she has had a phase in the middle of 2024 where she did not like her songs, and this stance has since been solidified in 2026),[p] among other artists, as well as an unhealthy addiction to Reddit[q] and Discord. As of October 2023, Holloway got too deep into the Saw films to the point where she typed up fake Jigsaw tapes based on situations she sees in the real world.[r] After developing a more concrete liking to the Saw franchise, she started contributing to its related articles, having coordinated with Mike Allen and Nardog.[s]
Since 31 October 2024, Holloway took a liking to the Harry Potter series of films after beginning a binge watch session during an off day.[t] She currently owns a replica of Hermione Granger's wand (who is also her favourite Harry Potter character), and occasionally imitates her voice in jest.[u] In college, Holloway often modifies certain social games to incorporate Harry Potter spells.[v]
Education
In the middle of Holloway’s first senior year semester in 2025,[w] she wrote her undergraduate thesis that would be considered unorthodox due to the topic’s Internet origins. However, due to both the prominence and abundance of information regarding brainrot terms, as well as Holloway’s genuine curiosity surrounding them, and her subsequent connections between those terms and academic thought, she managed to defend the first half of her thesis.[x] As of January 2026, on her second senior semester (in turn her final overall semester), she is collecting data for a final defence of her thesis.[y]
Holloway managed to defend her final thesis with data gathered, analysed and interpreted on her 21st birthday on 18 February 2026.[z]
Other details
Outside of an online life, Holloway maintains strong connections with her best friends, having regular outings with them as well as essentially having conversations with them.[aa] This is prevalent with her boyfriend (notwithstanding contentions in October 2023) who lives 10 minutes away from her, yet sometimes she texts to talk over meeting face-to-face.[ab]
Holloway currently mains a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 Max chip, powering her hobbies beyond university.[ac]
Edit history
General blunders
Holloway sometimes makes quick, subsequent edits once she realises she's missed some sort of information or fix (such as punctuation errors, misspellings or even missing a reference,[ad] anything of the sort). Though she uses British English spelling and grammar conventions, and in spite of her impulses telling her to correct to such spelling and grammar conventions, all American English articles she edits on remain in American English even though she's got a joking hate against this standard of English.[ae]
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate insanity
Holloway may mess up by adding stuff that is not meant for encyclopaedic style articles, or is subjective, or is based on a headline (as seen here). However, she's willing to engage in calm conversation should an edit error arise.[af] This was refuted for a short time on 5 March 2024, when Holloway had a fit of insanity[ag] trying to revert vandal edits on Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate due to flak the movie generated because of its perceived lack of the original voice cast from the 2010 movie and dodgy animation quality compared to the original.[ah] While she does agree that the movie is subpar,[ai] she doesn't like it rubbed into the article's face, in turn forcing it on everyone.
The Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate insanity was Holloway's first time bordering on an edit war,[aj] although after she checked the definition of such, she immediately absolved herself, and this absolution was solidified by an admin leaving an appreciative message on her talk page after she fought back against vandals.
Blackout copyright issues
On 12 and 17 May 2024, after completing a full marathon of the podcast drama series Blackout,[ak] Holloway contributed heavily to the related Wikipedia page with extended cast and crew information on the lead and information box.[13][14][15] On the latter day, Holloway added episode information, the synopses of which were taken directly from the Apple Podcasts listing for Blackout.[16][al] A copyright violation investigation was opened the next day on 18 May 2024,[17] and resulted in complete removal of copyrighted content on 26 May 2024.[18][am]
The resulting talk page discussion on the same day left Holloway shaken for weeks, even if it was a simple warning from the administrator who reverted the copyrighted content.[an]
Iron Lung edit mania
Between 30 January and 2 February 2026, Holloway maintained a long streak of frequent contributions to articles related to Iron Lung and its associated film adaptation, after having waited for the film to release for a long time.[ao][ap] Her major contribution was not necessarily adding to these articles, instead she cut down Iron Lung's film plot just enough to get it under 700 words, before other editors took over.[20][aq] This streak of edits to articles related to Iron Lung is the only one that Holloway genuinely enjoys.[ar] However, this edit mania was also the basis for a different problem: temporary accounts essentially hiding identities, editing on places that Holloway worked on. This is especially true for the plot summary of the Iron Lung film until mid-February where it settled to a simpler, less lore-heavy summary.[as]
Notes
- It sounds like a Taylor Swift song, particularly from the folklore era. So enchanting...
- I wanted this lowercase version to show up more prominently, but for some reason it can't, probably due to the usual technical reasons surrounding lowercase names. Looks like you're going to have to enjoy seeing the proper case ElegantlyClandestine, then. I don't mind it, personally (at least it's not Elegantlyclandestine, ew), but it's a bummer.
- The latter part of 2023 was my active era. Then more university things had to come.
- The proper form for this alias is in small caps.
- Notwithstanding unforeseen contentions between 1-21 October 2023, where Holloway had disagreements with McDougal.
- I have a long streak of edits, and I almost went insane trying to get the page together, so much so I've had to call Mike Allen for help. That is until I eventually figured out what to do, so I've done that and now it's near perfect. As far as I remember, he had to change some stuff I glossed over.
- With the help of Mike Allen (thanks!)
- This included my insane fit reverting a vandal with a few other people. Do those people who vandalise really not have a life? Ugh...
- One edit is omitted from the list of 1,000+ byte edits, see the section Blackout copyright issues for more details.
- Yeah, imagine me editing an article for that innocent kids' show supposedly for little girls, only for me to follow it up with edits to the Saw franchise. Wild, just like the movies on the latter.
- I am open to being friends, however. Still, please don't save all your dirtiest jokes for me. That's my boyfriend's job. Seriously, just don't. I am not kidding.
- We had a few disagreements. I am so glad all of this got resolved... I'd hate for him to leave me before Christmas.
- I still like those movies that she likes. Just because I dislike her now doesn't mean that sentiment applies to those liked movies.
- Duh. Who doesn't like her? Ahem, K*nye fans and Scoot*r Br*un— more like Scoot Off apologists. But, well, this perspective has changed significantly. Maybe I've changed.
- They were overplayed and boring. However, I've looked back on that since 4 November 2024 on that Harry Potter Discord server. I only listen to the classics and some modern stuff up to the folkmore era. And then it changed, now I don't listen to her that much anymore. You might still see residual references and wisecracks on Taylor Swift, but know that right now, I can't change them into something more clever. Whoops.
- As of 20 January 2026, my current karma count on my Reddit account (u/timfreemints) is 79,191 karma (not taking into account awarder and awardee karma, because those were shuttered.)
- My personal favourites are based off one movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is essentially Saw for children. Those kids "die" one by one in rather Rube Goldberg fashion; Augustus Gloop via vacuum for example. Then I got bored and wrote up some tapes corresponding to the fate of all the kids. That was a little fun, but I sadly couldn't record them because no way do I have a deep enough voice for Jigsaw, I'm a girl for Christ's sakes!
- Those two are really nice and take their time. They indirectly welcomed me with open arms to editing Saw articles. How sweet!
- The like was so strong that I ended up memorising the spells over what I was supposed to be studying. Whoops!
- It's her Wingardium Leviosa I frequently imitate. "It's Le-vi-OH-sa, not Le-vi-oh-SAR!" Who can forget that?
- Let's say Red Light, Green Light for example. When I want to convey a red light, I cast Arresto Momentum. If I want people to start moving, I just say "go" (is there even a proper spell that doesn't sound silly?). However, if they move when it's a red light (Arresto Momentum in this case), this is where I cast Avada Kedavra on them, effectively removing them from the game.
- I forgot to mention this, but yeah. I currently study to get a Bachelor of Arts in English, and have been doing so since 2022.
- Honestly, I didn’t expect for some older words to come up in today’s vernacular. I knew we were making up nonsense, but when older terms either get twisted or morphed? That’s the beauty of language. And looking at it has made me shocked and go insane at the same time.
- Wish me luck, guys! Unfortunately, due to the population scope I set for my thesis, I cannot ask most Wikipedians. Sorry!
- IT ACTUALLY ALL WORKED OUT OH MY GOD. Thank you to the people who believed in me! I'm graduating this year now...
- In simple Generation Z and Generation Alpha terms, I can touch grass unlike most of everyone else reading this Wikipedia user page or literally any other article than this. (Come on, I'm just kidding!)
- Back then, I could listen to the ten-minute version of All Too Well while driving and arrive at his house. How cool is that?
- I don't deprive myself of the rare gaming session, nor do I forget to practise my writing, drawing, among other things. Well, I used to code. Didn't have much patience as I did before, and I don't really have the time to build apps anymore... oh well. C'est la vie. Can't really control the variables as I thought I could.
- ...or adding in the wrong reference, or double-referencing (this is also something you should keep in notice about me.)
- I hold no grudge against people who use American English, it's just that my spellcheck gets triggered. Sorry!
- Yeah, you need to calm down. (Sorry, I was tempted into referencing the Taylor Swift song! By this point, you should probably know with enough evidence beyond a shred of doubt that I like her, at least at the time of writing that explanatory footnote. Oh well, at least that temptation's curbed.)
- I swear, I lost it with those vandals. I've had to risk getting caught by the professor just to revert their stupidity! Luckily, that never happened, because she (the professor) thought I was taking notes, as is the case with college students.
- I still do. I really didn't like those 85 minutes, luckily I didn't pay attention and was instead playing roguelike games on my phone.
- Fun fact, this gave me some level of anxiety! Seriously, back then I questioned the fact as to why vandals are, well... vandals.
- I'm not sponsored by QCode to say this: you should give it a listen. It's so good!
- Initially, I thought that these synopses were just "out in the open" when I saw them at the Apple Podcasts app. Turns out the copyright information on the synopses were uncertain. Whoops!
- Only the episode table structure remained after that purge. At least that part isn't gone...
- At the time, I thought I was gonna get blocked or permanently banned. That's what scared me for weeks even if I already knew that it wasn't either of those.
- I've played the original game to hell, and kinda left bummed when the game was too short. That's when I realised that the lore could make for a good movie, and oh boy, did Mark deliver.
- Honestly, I didn't know where else to cut off plot. Thank God others got in and removed the majority of lore-based content (and unlike the Quiet Rapture, there was some fair bit of warning). We don't need another Five Nights at Freddy's situation.
- Well, you can't really stop enthusiasm. Once you activate that one part of me that's willing to yap about a certain thing for hours, you can no longer suppress me from doing it. Same thing happens when you get me to do something I really like. Such is the life of a nerdy, driven girl.
- Look, I get that there are legitimate reasons to hide your identity. Maybe you're in a public network, or maybe you want to decouple certain contributions from your main account. But to restore plot bloat or add extraneous details? Come on... oh well, at least that's gone now.