diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
index 46d3593082..471e9e97a5 100644
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -1,43 +1,45 @@
 StylesPath = .vale/styles
 MinAlertLevel = suggestion
 
 [asciidoctor]
 # enable
 experimental = YES
 
 # assign a specific value
 attribute-missing = drop
 
 [*.adoc]
 BasedOnStyles = FreeBSD, Vale
 BlockIgnores = (?s) *(\[\.programlisting\]\n\.{4}.*?\.{4})
 
 [website/content/{bn-bd,da,de,el,es,fr,hu,id,it,ja,ko,mn,nl,pl,pt-br,ru,tr,zh-cn,zh-tw}/**/*.adoc]
 BasedOnStyles = FreeBSD, Vale
 FreeBSD.BrandTerms = NO
 FreeBSD.ConsciousLanguage = NO
 FreeBSD.Contractions = NO
 FreeBSD.Hang = NO
 FreeBSD.Hyphens = NO
+FreeBSD.SuperfluousOptArgInLinks = NO
 FreeBSD.Repitition = NO
 FreeBSD.SemanticLineBreak = NO
 FreeBSD.Spacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Weasel = NO
 Vale.Avoid= NO
 Vale.Spelling = NO
 Vale.Terms= NO
 
 [documentation/content/{bn-bd,da,de,el,es,fr,hu,id,it,ja,ko,mn,nl,pl,pt-br,ru,tr,zh-cn,zh-tw}/**/*.adoc]
 BasedOnStyles = FreeBSD, Vale
 FreeBSD.BrandTerms = NO
 FreeBSD.ConsciousLanguage = NO
 FreeBSD.Contractions = NO
 FreeBSD.Hang = NO
 FreeBSD.Hyphens = NO
+FreeBSD.SuperfluousOptArgInLinks = NO
 FreeBSD.Repitition = NO
 FreeBSD.SemanticLineBreak = NO
 FreeBSD.Spacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Weasel = NO
 Vale.Avoid= NO
 Vale.Spelling = NO
 Vale.Terms= NO
diff --git a/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/SuperfluousOptArgInLinks.yml b/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/SuperfluousOptArgInLinks.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36b2b4158b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/SuperfluousOptArgInLinks.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+extends: existence
+message: "Displayed text coincides with URL, leave the brackets empty: %s"
+ignorecase: true
+level: suggestion
+scope: raw
+raw:
+ - 'link:([^ ]*)\/?\[\1\/?\]'