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'''Waye Mason''' is formerly quite active wikipedian who still occasionally dabbles. His first edit was made at 00:44, on 9 August 2005. Born in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax/Dartmouth]], as it was then called, he also lived in [[Toronto]], [[Ottawa]], [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]] and [[London]]. <p>
He was elected to [[Halifax Regional Council]] as the Councillor for District 7 [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] South Downtown in October 2012, and was re-elected twice. He ran for Mayor in 2024 and was not successful, so he may go back to editing Halifax related pages now that there is no conflict of interest. Has had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the page [[Waye Mason]], though with HRM past 500,000 people I think all the Councillors qualify for notability now so he may create the pages for the rest of them, heh.  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 since 1989, including running the now defunct [[Halifax Pop Explosion]] for a nine years.<p>
He likes writing about things in third person, but only on Wikipedia./jk<p>
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 [[Bulletin Board System|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 newsgroup|Usenet newsgroups]] and the newsgroups were all, by and large, good, and [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]] and [[Telnet]] were still magical.

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" |  '''The Working {{#switch: man
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I give you the Working Man's Barnstar for your tireless efforts in improving articles related to [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]]. The articles are much better and more factually correct now, and it is, I think, in large part thanks to you. Drop me a line anytime you like :)[[User:Thomasiscool|Thomasiscool]] 00:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I thank you for including Quebec in your Canada. [[User:Brianrodgershfx|Brianrodgershfx]] ([[User talk:Brianrodgershfx|talk]]) 19:41, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
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==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]]
* [[wikipedia:WikiProject_NovaScotia]] when I mostly quit in 2008 this kind of died off.  Love to see it taken over by someone with time.


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