On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:

To clarify the term "long-serving Wikimedia Commons bureaucrat",
Michael had both rights of admin and bureaucrat restored seven months
ago, without a community vote, after retiring in December 2010.[2]

Links
1. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Minutes_14Sep13#Secretary.E2.80.99s_Report
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/MichaelMaggs

Fæ: Be kind.

There was indeed a community vote to restore MM as a bureaucrat.  Unsurprisingly: landslide support.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bureaucrats/Requests/MichaelMaggs_(2)

SJ