diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 FreeBSD.EOLSpacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Hang = NO
 FreeBSD.Hyphens = NO
+FreeBSD.SuperfluousOptArgInLinks = NO
 FreeBSD.Repitition = NO
 FreeBSD.Spacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Spelling = NO
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
 FreeBSD.EOLSpacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Hang = NO
 FreeBSD.Hyphens = NO
+FreeBSD.SuperfluousOptArgInLinks = NO
 FreeBSD.Repitition = NO
 FreeBSD.Spacing = NO
 FreeBSD.Spelling = NO
diff --git a/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/SuperfluousOptArgInLinks.yml b/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/SuperfluousOptArgInLinks.yml
new file mode 100644
--- /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:([^ ]*)\/?\[\1\/?\]'