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QuickSand: Has too much Accuracy (90%) for being an OHKO move. Also Fissure is a Ground OHKO too, so Quicksand may not be needed.
Read the move description again. In order to achieve that accuracy in a One-Hit KO, the user must also faint itself.

Gravity Pull: No longer needed, a new D/P move named Gravity does the same.
This is true.

Sand Trap: It reduced too much Accuracy (3 stages) no original move reduces/increase an stat more than 3 stages with the exception of Belly Drum
Yeah, this is also true. I actually invented Sand Trap myself for a Bug/Ground-type ant lion pokmon, and it's even more broken than it seems, because the same pokmon also had Fissure on its natural move list. What can I say, I was young and foolish.

Root Plant: The move Ingrain does the same, but it last until the user faints.
It's not quite the same. As you pointed out, Ingrain lasts until the user faints, but aside from that, Ingrain also heals the user a bit every turn. Root Plant gives you the flexibility of letting it wear off, at the cost of not getting the HP. Nintendo has tons of official moves that are this similar to each other.

Magnetize: Same reasons as Sand Trap
Hmm...maybe the staff should discuss whether we want to allow moves raising or lowering stats by more than two stages at a time. We've differed from Nintendo before on other matters, too, such as letting non-Water-types evolve with King's Rock.

Aimed Shot: The move Swift does the same, plus it has 60 Power.
The move Swift does not do the same. It hasn't done the same since back in Red/Blue. Aimed Shot hits even if the target is Digging, Flying, or otherwise unreachable by the vast majority of moves. Swift stopped doing that in Gold/Silver. The lower damage is to balance with the fact that not even Protect can stop this sucker.

Cold Glance: Does the same as the move Tickle, which has 100% accuracy.
And? You can say the same about Supersonic and Confuse Ray, respectively. Heck, Zubat learns both of those moves. Kinda makes Supersonic worthless...except that lots of pokmon can learn Supersonic and can't learn Confuse Ray.

Data Absorb: Too much boost. No original move increases 2 stats 2 stages each.
Good point...does any PF pokmon have this on their natural move list, I wonder? We could make it a rare TM...

Sonic Wave: Does the same as Swift
It also does the same as Faint Attack, and Shock Wave...the difference for those moves is their damage type, and the difference for this move is that it's blocked by the Soundproof ability. Anyway, a sound-based pokmon having this move rather than Swift would be entirely appropriate; Nintendo has moves that are exactly the same but differ thematically. One of the more famous examples is Fury Attack and Exeggcute's Barrage. Same exact move.

Calcify: Same reasons as Sand Trap
Same comment as Magnetize.