User:WayeMason

Waye Mason is formerly active wikipedian who still occasionally dabbles. His first edit was made at 00:44, on 9 August 2005. Born in Halifax/Dartmouth, as it was then called, he also lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Norfolk and London. He was elected as Halifax Regional Council Councillor for District 7 Halifax South Downtown in October 2012, and has been re-elected twice. He tries not to edit the Halifax page anymore because conflict of interest! Before he was elected he worked as an educator at a the Nova Scotia Community College, and as a business consultant focusing on business management, event planning, and government lobbying around cultural issues. He has been involved with the Halifax music community for since 1989, including running the now defunct Halifax Pop Explosion for a nine years. He likes writing about things in third person, but only on Wikipedia./jk I've been editing for almost 20 years. I have been online since about 1984, when I first plugged a 300 baud acoustic coupler into my Vic-20 and called into my first BBS, TIBBS, a local BBS run on a Texas Instruments computer. I had an email account on the AM*X network and a FidoNet account by 1986, and was trying to hack into the Dal university computer by 1987. My first real post DARPA net style internet email address was at Dalhousie University as a student in 1990. As a point of pride - I still have access to that email account. I remember when there were only 1100 Usenet newsgroups and the newsgroups were all, by and large, good, and Gopher and Telnet were still magical.

Articles I Contributed to Heavily and Took Particular Pride In (most have changed to be almost unrecognizable over the years!)

 * Kings County, Nova Scotia
 * Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
 * Mahone Bay
 * Edward Elliot
 * Music of Nova Scotia
 * Sunbury County, Nova Scotia
 * Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
 * Buck 65
 * Halifax Pop Explosion
 * No Records
 * Music of Canada's Maritimes
 * Halifax City Hall
 * WikiProject_NovaScotia when I mostly quit in 2008 this kind of died off. Love to see it taken over by someone with time.