User:WayeMason

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Waye Mason is a seasonal wikipedian who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Seasonal, as in, able to write a lot in the spring and summer, and not as much in the fall and winter. His first edit was made at 00:44, on 9 August 2005.

While he was born in Halifax/Dartmouth, as it was then called, he also lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Norfolk and London.

He currently works as an educator at a local 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 17 years, and has done all sorts of neat things around that.

He likes writing about things in third person, but only on Wikipedia.

The Working Man's Barnstar
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 :)Thomasiscool 00:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] About Me

More importantly, though, than the bio above, are my real life nerd achievements. 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.... I remember when there were only 1100 usenet new groups and the newgroups were all, by and large, good, and telnet was the shizznit.

I think Wiki is great, though almost every page to do with music of Nova Scotia is very un-encyclopedic and completely biased. I think I have a lot to contribute here, but god damn it is a lot of work. I am being bold and hope that my massive edits of some of these pages will be the catalyst to have a more healthy level of involvement by our music community in this wiki community.

[edit] Nova Scotia

I love my home with a deep passion. Its ridiculous, I make fun of myself so you should too. Over winter break 2005/06 I founded the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Nova_Scotia, working on new template driven sidebars (which other people actually placed! woot!) and trying to get together enough people to start a biweekly "Nova Scotia Article of the Moment" system.

I am trying to upgrade all the Nova Scotia maps, flags, crests, arms to a better standard of graphic. I am also upgrading all the municiple pages, and I am slowly going through the NS county pages and adding content and links. I am also watching to make sure creeping stupid tourist scottish revisionism does not overtake historical fact on the NS, CB culture, history and music pages.

[edit] NS Project Links

[edit] Music

I am pretty much out of updating music for now, too much other structure and organization to do.

[edit] Major Revisions to Come

  • finish buck 65 album pages - unlikely to happen any time soon.
  • all county upgrades on hold until Plasma East and I complete the new NS community template User:WayeMason/test
  • ECMA page upgraded

[edit] Articles I Contributed to Heavily and Take Particular Pride In

[edit] An article that, despite taking six months to correct over what is essentially a minor matter, but I am proud to have helped fix

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