soil reinforcing element 100 or a splicing end 214 of the grid strip in yet other embodiments the spacing of the transverse wires 104 206 is irregular along the length of the longitudinal wires 102 204 respectively the splice 200 may include one or more wave plates such as a first plate 208 a and a second plate 208 b in at least one embodiment the first and second wave plates 208 a b are mirror images of one another each wave plate 208 a b may include one or more transverse protrusions 210 longitudinally offset from each other each wave plate 208 a b may further define one or more plate perforations such as plate perforations 212 a 212 b and 212 c as shown in fig2 b each transverse protrusion 210 may be configured to receive and or seat either a transverse wire 104 from the soil reinforcing element 100 or a transverse wire 206 from the grid strip 202 accordingly in embodiments having two or more transverse protrusions 210 each protrusion 210 may be spaced a predetermined distance from an adjacent protrusion 210 so as to correspond to the equally spaced transverse wires 104 206 of either the soil reinforcing element 100 or the grid strip 202 in one or more embodiments one or more transverse wires 104 proximal the reinforcing end 112 of the soil reinforcing element 100 may be coupled to or otherwise seated within the first wave plate 208 a likewise one or more transverse wires 206 proximal a splicing end 214 of the grid strip 202 may be coupled to or otherwise seated within the second wave plate 208 b as.