|reason= is optional but is recommended for clarifying the reason as to why the work should not be moved to Commons. For the situation where a work of non-US origin is free content in the United States while being subject to copyright restrictions in its country of origin, the parameter can be given as |reason=US only to supply a standard explanation about the work being non-free in its country of origin.

|expiry= hides the message at the end of the given year. For example, if a work by an author who died in 1950 was first published in a country whose copyright term is life plus 70 years, use |expiry=2020, and the message would automatically disappear in 2021, when the image would be automatically placed into Category:Media now suitable for Commons.

{{Do not move to Commons}}

Always shows the template.

{{Do not move to Commons|expiry=2020}}

Shows the message until December 31, 2020, but hides it starting January 1, 2021.

{{Do not move to Commons|reason=US only}}

For situations where a work of non-US origin is free content in the United States but non-free or potentially non-free in its country of origin.

{{Do not move to Commons|reason=GFDL only}}

See c:Commons:Licensing#GNU Free Documentation License

{{Do not move to Commons|reason=Other reason}}

For situations where more clarification as to why it should not be uploaded to Commons is needed.

• {{PD-US}}, which this template was originally transcluded from
• {{Possibly non-free in US}}, a template for the opposite situation, where a claim of non-free use may need to be made because a file is in the public domain in another country but not the US.
• {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}
• {{Keep local}}
• {{Incomplete move to Commons}}
• {{Nominated for deletion on Commons}}
• {{Esoteric file}}
• {{Userspace file}}