User blog comment:Kiefer/Finally LyricWiki Becomes Ruined/@comment-26239285-20190404081618/@comment-26239285-20190408051122

Someone pointed me to the deletion logs and skimming through it looks like several pages that were deleted were restored, sometimes this happening more than once for the same song.

Seeing it from Sannse's point of view, I can only guess that she was fed up with it, and maybe presumed that they didn't care about the rules. She stated in 2017 that LyricWiki had to remove offending material, gave them two years to do it, and because it still wasn't done by 2019, locked the site.

Although there are 2M+ songs, it's not like they were expected to do it overnight. 2 years is realistic if everyone made a concerted effort and action was taken to block people who re-uploaded.

Probably what could have been done better was for her to ask for progress each 6 months or so and give appropriate warnings if not enough had been done. As for why not enough had been done in 2 years, I can only suspect that the admins were not serious enough about implementing the necessary changes.