Editing Defamation (section)

====Background====
Modern defamation in common law jurisdictions are historically derived from [[English defamation law]]. English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual or individuals (under English law companies are legal persons, and allowed to bring suit for defamation<ref name="indiana1">{{cite journal|url=http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1136&context=fclj |first1=Douglas W. |last1=Vick |first2=Linda |last2=Macpherson|title=An Opportunity Lost: The United Kingdom's Failed Reform of Defamation Law |journal=Federal Communications Law Journal |issue=3 |volume= 49|date=1 April 1997 |access-date=12 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lawtortsatreati00salmgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/lawtortsatreati00salmgoog/page/n417 385] |quote=english law individual corporation defamation. |title=The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the English Law of Liability for Civil Injuries |author= John William Salmond |publisher=Stevens and Haynes |year=1907 |access-date=15 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="lexology1">{{cite web|first=Sam|last=Howard |url=http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=405621d2-ac5c-48b4-92d0-b161421b7476 |title=Defamation of corporate entities in England |publisher=Lexology |date= 15 March 2007|access-date=15 March 2013}}</ref>) in a manner that causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of them.