Why would Blizz add PvP and not Battlegrounds?

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Because it's a spell targetted against an enemy?  Every spell works this way, including Detect Magic, why should Mind Vision be any different?
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Because the manual says that on a normal server, besides typing /pvp you'll enable your pvp flag by:

"Attacking an NPC of an opposing faction [...]"

"Attacking an opposing player that attacked a friendly NPC"

"Aiding a player engaged in PvP combat"

"Entering an enemy capital city"

and I don't think Mind Vision counts as any of those. I don't actually think Detect Magic counts as any of those things, either, and I'd say that that shouldn't flag you for PvP either, although that's a bit more of a borderline case (and puts you into combat, I suspect: I don't know, though).

I don't mind that it does flag me now that I know about it, but the manual is at worst wrong, and certainly misleading, since Mind Vision is _not_ an attack because it doesn't put you into combat.