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[Demonic Gophers]

My mood preferences and reasons:

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Excellent
Weaponsmith or armorsmith
Artifact weapons and armor (excluding a single boot or glove) are both awesome and useful.  Smiths are fairly hard to train, and quality matters more for weapons and armor than pretty much any other product.
Very good
Mechanic
I love artifact mechanisms.  They make the shiniest wells, the most lethal traps, and an easy boost in room value that can actually be used for something when it isn't needed there.  Mechanics are fairly easy to train, but I prefer to use only high quality mechanisms and sell all the others, so getting a legendary mechanic early on is a nice boost both to the value of my trade goods and to my supply of mechanisms that I'm actually willing to use.
Bowyer
Quality is far more important than material for ranged weapons, so I'm glad to get an artifact crossbow no matter what it's made of.  A legendary bowyer is also good for providing lots of light, cheap, but high quality crossbows if I actually try to carry out my recurring plan to stick all my haulers and such in crossbow squads.
Good
Metalsmith
Gives an artifact that is usually valuable and useful.  Hard to train.  Good source of high value furniture, especially if I have some valuable but not useful metal ore on the map.  I also like high quality anvils even though they make little or no difference.
Metal crafter
Gives an artifact that is usually useless, but valuable and fun.  I like to have at least one high-skill metal crafter in a fort to provide high quality chains for wells, jails, and boosting room value.  Also good for decorating weapons and armor, and sometimes I use metal crafts for trade goods.
Mason
Artifact furniture is always nice.  A legendary mason help churn out blocks quickly for above ground construction, or uses up stone quickly from large amounts of digging.  Also a good source for large amounts of high quality, moderately valuable furniture for dining halls and bed rooms.
Carpenter
Artifact furniture again.  Speed is less important for a carpenter than a mason, since I rarely have huge quantities of wood to run through, but a highly skilled carpenter is the only source for masterwork beds.  If wood is plentiful, it's also useful for barrels, bins, wheelbarrows, and light, cheap, high quality shields to go with the crossbows.
Leatherworker
Artifact clothing that doesn't fall apart is handy.  I tend to buy up large amounts of leather from traders, so a skilled leatherworker to turn it into high quality items is nice, but far from essential.
Weaver or clothier
Artifact clothing again.  I rarely get around to setting up much of a cloth industry, but it's nice to have the workers around who can do it properly if needed.
Mediocre
Miner
Artifact furniture is nice, but miners are very easy to train, and skill just influences their speed.  I usually have legendary miners soon enough without wasting moods on them.
Tanner
Artifact clothing, but I don't tend to have all that much for tanners to do, and I usually allow tanning for a large number of my frequent idlers, so it gets done quickly even with low skilled labor.
Gem cutter or gem setter
Artifact is most often useless, and frequently a boring 'perfect gem', but sometimes an awesome piece of gem furniture.  I rarely get around to doing much with gems, but skilled jewelers are handy if I decide I want to make some really expensive furniture or something.
Glassmaker on a map with sand
Artifact may or may not be useful.  If I get a glass industry going, it invariably starts with churning out large supplies of green glass blocks, so glassmakers are easy to train if I need them.  Having a legendary one on hand, however, lets me throw in trade goods and furniture immediately.
Bone carver
Artifact is probably not very useful, but likely to be amusing.  I like having at least one high-skilled bone carver to turn my skulls into totems and churn out high quality bone bolts.  If I have a lot of fishing going on, they can also use up shells.
Poor
Stone carver
Useless artifact.  I tend to favor high value trade goods like ≡gold goblets≡, or most often rejects from my weapon and mechanism production that don't meet my quality standards.  I usually do above ground walls, so stone mostly goes to my masons and stone carvers usually don't have a lot to do.
Wood carver
Useless artifact.  Wood is usually less common than stone, and not valuable enough to bother with making wooden crafts for trading.  If I happen to have a highly skilled wood carver and plenty of trees, I might make wooden bolts.
Engraver
Useless artifact.  A legendary engraver is nice to have, but easy to get by smoothing everything in sight.
Die, you traitor!
Any Possession that produces a useless craft
Glassmaker on a map with no sand

[KingBacon]

1) Weaponsmith
2) Armorsmith
3) Masons/Miners (Some cool furniture)
4) Engravers, sooo long to train so any mood is a godsend.
5) Everyone else is either irrelevant, a hassle, or deserving of death

I mark all dorfs who use candy for garbage trinkets for death. I mean seriously, you stonecrafters kick out some valuable slag who's busy extracting strands, grab some of the blue stuff, and make what? AN EARING with SPIKES OF CAT BONE? OOOooooooo, nice- not. Gwad I hope a goblin impales you while you are dragging refuse.

... useless little shits.

[neblime]

I didn't read too far down your list, but I think armorsmith is better than weaponsmith. 
A dwarf only needs 1 weapon, he needs 7 pieces of armor.  Also it doesn't matter how bad his weapon is if his armor is good enough to use it for longer.

[itg]

Here's my list, heavily influenced by personal style.

3) Engraver. I engrave everything, and training up engravers is a pain, since I don't want any low-quality engravings. Too bad the artifact itself is going to be useless.

You can overwrite floor engravings by carving track, which can then be smoothed away and engraved again. Rather clunky and roundabout, but each step gives additional engraving skill, so it's a valid training scheme.

Yeah, that has to be the best way to train engravers (other than smoothing things you actually want smoothed), but it's still takes enough time and effort that I'd rather have a few farmers smooth one or two tiles each and then let nature take its course.

[Bouchart]

As a general rule I like to have only exceptional or masterwork quality goods in my fort and I export everything else.

1 ) Armorsmith- High quality steel armor is always a big priority.
2 ) Weaponsmith- I rank Weaponsmith below Armorsmith because it's possible to train Weaponsmiths by churning out a bunch of copper crossbow bolts, which is more useful than churning out a bunch of copper armor and melting it down.
3 ) Blacksmith- Can make some very high value furniture with this.
4) Glassmaker- It's a fun skill to use, though there are logistical problems with sand/fuel on some maps.
5 ) Mason- It's always useful to make masterwork furniture, although this skill improves quickly on its own.  The exception might be in a map where you have a lot of masons building constructions and the dedicated, high experience mason isn't making furniture because of that.
6) Gem setter- I like to decorate furniture with high value, high quality gems.  A strange mood makes the process much faster.
7 ) Bone carver- I like to decorate furniture with bones.  High value bones are fairly rare to find, but there are plenty of cheap bones from livestock to work with until I'm ready to decorate stuff.
8 ) Metalcrafter- I also like to decorate furniture with metal bars.  This is easier to train if you have a lot of cheap metal like copper, since studding with metal doesn't require fuel.
9) Carpenter- It's easy to get to Legendary even on maps with little wood, because you need so many beds and barrels.  Wood never has much value either so you can't waste expensive wood.
10) Clothier- Easier to train if you import a lot of cloth.  I like high quality bags; don't care as much about the quality of actual clothes.
11) Leatherworker- Easier to train if you import a lot of leather.  I like high quality bags; don't care as much about the quality of actual clothes and rarely make leather armor.
12) Mechanic- There's generally enough stone to churn out mechanisms.
13) Miner- This is easy to train on its own most of the time by digging in soil.
14) Stonecrafter- Same as Mechanic..
15) Gem Cutter- Easy to train by cutting ordinary stone.  Skill only affects how quickly it's done, and the quality of craft gems I don't really want anyway.
16 ) Weaver- This tends to train itself reasonably well with Collect Webs.
17) Engraver- It's easy to train this just by smoothing a huge chunk of the map.  There's no shortage of rough floor.
18) Bowyer- You can make bows from metal using Weaponsmith, and in my experience I don't need more than a handful of masterwork bows unless I want to build a bunch of crossbow traps for some reason.
19) Woodcrafter- I rarely use this for anything beyond crossbow bolts, so it's low priority.
20 ) Tanner- having a legendary Tanner isn't a big deal because getting raw skins is a bit sporadic and the tanner is rarely overworked.

[Sutremaine]

Is there anybody who'll place something other than weaponsmithing and armoursmithing in the top two?

[Bouchart]

I could potentially see Blacksmithing up at the #1 slot to build high value furniture.  but every fort needs a military, and those two skills are hard to train.

[Putnam]

Individually I would position woodcrafter last, also miner emotions generate the same things as builder emotions, so in terms of doll effectiveness, those are similar to builder emotions.

Quoted for history. This is an impressive spam tactic. Basically copy other posts and replace some words with synonyms.

The problem is that mood is a proper noun. Oops.