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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to move it up to Featured article status. I would like a peer review for any final problems that might be raised in the FAC part. Thanks.

Thanks, The Windler talk 09:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. I think this has some work befopre reaching FA status.

The lead does not have an image but should - probably the two guys dressed up is best. The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself but the second lead paragraph on the CHaser and its history does not seem to be in the article. Please see WP:LEAD
There are two free images of the world leaders at the APEC summit article - why not use one of them, perhaps in the section on the summit?
Some places need refs, for example here is a direct quote without a cite: Morrow also hinted on the general idea for their prank; that their challenge was to do a stunt that would "make Osama bin Laden feel a little incompetent". My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
Refs need work - one is marked as a dead link, some are just links, but Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
I am also not sure about linking to a YouTube video - does the poster really have the copyright to the material in question?
The Other stunts section is full of very short (one or two sentence) subsections and paragraphs. Could they be combined? I note most of them do not give dates either - they should to provide context for the reader - see WP:PCR and perhaps organizing them by dates would be a way to have fewer subsections.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]