Thread:Project:Support desk/Do NOT Succeed to entre as ADMIN/reply (16)

Admin Links merely provides links to existing functions; it performs no actions of its own. If you try to perform an admin-only action like editing system messages without having the required rights, MediaWiki will still prevent you from doing it. Admin Links is simply a convenience tool to make things easier for the wiki's administrators.

For normal users, Special:SpecialPages is the only place they'll find a link to the page; not because it's too powerful, but simply because it's not very useful for normal users. The restricted functionality is already restricted.