[Beragagnu]

If you see the wikipedia eentry, you would notice that there was attempts in recent history to dilute alawis and bring them into fold of twelver shia and sunni.

The attempts by those who have no knowledge, especially secularists that don't really care about Islam, hold no merit. Also, Wikipedia is a biased encyclopedia, shaped by whatever demographic of people is able to mobilize and make edits. Also, the Alawis themselves may have tried their hand at editing because they believe themselves to be Muslim, when both the Shi'a and the Sunni have rejected them completely.